evening

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈiːv.nɪŋ/]

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1. evening (noun) — sense 1

Definition: The time of day between afternoon and night.

Example: Toward evening, there was heavy rain.

2. evening (noun) — sense 2

Definition: The time of the day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight (compare afternoon); the period after the end of regular office working hours.

Example: At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

3. evening (noun) — sense 3

Definition: A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something.

Example: It was the evening of the Roman Empire.

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