evening
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- ev'ning (obsolete)
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English evening, evenyng, from Old English ǣfnung, from ǣfnian < ǣfen (from Proto-West Germanic *ābanþ, from Proto-Germanic *ēbanþs), corresponding to even + -ing.
PronunciationEdit
- enPR: ēv'nĭng, IPA(key): /ˈiːvnɪŋ/
Audio (UK) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈivnɪŋ/
Audio (US) (file)
NounEdit
evening (countable and uncountable, plural evenings)
- The time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark.
- 2013 July–August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
- Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
- 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.
- 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
- 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.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
- (figuratively) 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.
- A party or gathering held in the evening.
- 1980, Management Services (page 50)
- A few Gorllewin Cymru/West Wales Branch members attended an evening at the Dragon Hotel, Swansea, titled Photographic Techniques in Industry.
- 1980, Management Services (page 50)
SynonymsEdit
- (time of day): eve, eventide, undern (UK dialect); see also Thesaurus:evening
Coordinate termsEdit
- (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight (Category: en:Times of day)
Derived termsEdit
- evening cicada
- evening class
- evening dress
- evening glove
- evening gown
- evening grosbeak
- evening gun
- evening out
- evening prayer
- evening primrose
- evening primrose oil
- evening star
- evening trumpet flower
- evening walk
- evening wrap
- evening-dressed
- evening-gowned
- eveningtide
- eveningwear
- family home evening
- good evening
- lady of the evening
- parents' evening
- this evening
- yesterevening
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
time of day between dusk and night
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time of day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight
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figurative: concluding time period
a party or gathering held in the evening
Etymology 2Edit
Inflected forms.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
evening
Etymology 3Edit
Inflected forms.
VerbEdit
evening
AnagramsEdit
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
evening f (plural eveningen)
- (obsolete) levelling, equalisation, act or process of making or becoming even or equal
- (obsolete) equinox
- Synonyms: dag-en-nachtevening, equinox, nachtevening