Evening

Noun

 * 1) The time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark.
 * 2) 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.
 * 3)  A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something.
 * It was the evening of the Roman Empire.

Derived terms

 * evening dress
 * evening gown
 * evening grosbeak
 * evening prayer
 * evening primrose
 * evening star
 * evening trumpet flower
 * eveningwear
 * evening wrap
 * good evening
 * this evening

Related terms

 * eve
 * even

Verb
evening



Adjectives for Evening
lingering; tranquil; happy; occasional; curious; long; fatal; autumnal; cold; frosty; red; triumphant; sad-colored; ravishing; chilly; awkward; bacchanal; bridal; calm; swift-falling; unfortunate; deepening; sorrowful; unillumined; bronzed; sleepy; balmy; eventful; golden; peaceful; imperial; ensuing; purple; gusty; premature; sober; dewy; ghostlike; dull; shadowy; memorable; grateful; languorous; bygone; dusky; hectic; delirious; warm; muggy; uncomfortable; cheerful; amazing; preceding; quiet; starry; harmonic; roseate.

Verbs for Evening
approach—; await—; chill—; cloud—; crown—; draw toward—; gild—; hush—; last till—; occupy—; overcast—; ramble through—; return at—; rift—; rise at—; solemnize—; still—; sup at—; toil till—; usher in—; —approaches; —closes; —cools; —declines; —dies; —dims; —fades; —falls; —flies; —reposes; —shades; —sobers; — steals on.

Thesaurus
accommodation, adjustment, afternoon, balancing, close of day, cockshut, coordination, crepuscular, dimpsy, dusk, duskiness, duskness, dusky, equalization, equalizing, equating, equation, equilibration, eve, even, evening up, evensong, eventide, gloaming, grayness, harmonization, integration, nightfall, party, reception, regularization, salon, setting sun, shut of day, soiree, sundown, sunset, sunsetty, symmetrization, the expiring day, twilight, twilighty, vesper, vespertine

Etymology 1
ǣfnung, from æfnian, corresponding to even (Etymology 3) + -ing.

Etymology 2
Inflected forms.

Noun

 * Afrikaans: aand
 * Albanian: mbrëmje
 * Arabic: مساء
 * Armenian: ,
 * Old Armenian:
 * Azeri:
 * Belarusian: увечар, ўвечар, вечар
 * Bengali: সন্ধ্যা
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Bulgarian: вечер
 * Catalan: (early evening), vespre (late evening)
 * Central Atlas Tamazight: (tameddit)
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 晚上, 黃昏, 黄昏
 * Coptic:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech: večer
 * Danish:
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 * German:
 * Greek: εσπέρα, βράδυ, δειλινό
 * Greenlandic:
 * Hebrew: ערב
 * Hindi: शाम
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
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 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 夕方, 夜
 * Korean: 저녁
 * Kurdish:
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 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: vakaras
 * Livonian: ȭdõg
 * Macedonian: вечер
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: ,
 * Manx:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:, عصر, شام
 * Polish:
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 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: saira
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: feasgar
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Roman: veče, večer
 * Shona: maneru
 * Slovak: večer
 * Slovene:
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 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: సాయంత్రం (saayamtram), సాయంకాలం (saayamkaalam)
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, suare
 * Turkmen: agşam
 * Ukrainian: вечір
 * Urdu: شام
 * Uyghur: ئاخشام
 * Vietnamese: buổi chiều, buổi tối
 * Volapük: soar
 * Welsh: noswaith, hwyr, noson (occasion)


 * Croatian:
 * Japanese: 晩年, 日暮れ
 * Polish:


 * Russian: закат жизни
 * Swahili: