Definitions for Evening
ˈiv nɪŋEven·ing

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. evening, eve, even, eventide(noun)

   the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)

   "he enjoyed the evening light across the lake"

2. evening(noun)

   a later concluding time period

   "it was the evening of the Roman Empire"

3. evening(noun)

   the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way

   "an evening at the opera"

Webster Dictionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Evening

   of Even

   Etymology: [AS. fnung. See even, n., and cf. Eve.]

2. Evening(noun)

   the latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the decline of the day, or of the sum

   Etymology: [AS. fnung. See even, n., and cf. Eve.]

3. Evening(noun)

   the latter portion, as of life; the declining period, as of strength or glory

   Etymology: [AS. fnung. See even, n., and cf. Eve.]

Freebase(3.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Evening

   Evening in its primary meaning is the period of the day between afternoon and night. Though the term is subjective, evening is typically understood to begin a few hours before sunset, when temperatures begin to fall, and lasts until just after nightfall, when complete darkness has been reached. In layman's terms, the evening can range anywhere from four o'clock to nine. In the vernacular of at least parts of the rural Southern United States and in some British dialects, "evening" is used to mean "afternoon", as the main meal of the day, dinner, traditionally has occurred at midday. While the exact meaning of the word in this sense is subject to interpretation, "evening" in the South usually has been thought of as beginning at about noon and extending roughly until sunset or suppertime.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Evening

   ēv′ning, n. the close of the daytime: the decline or end of life: an evening party or gathering.—ns. Ev′enfall, early evening, twilight; Eve′ning-dress, the dress worn by ladies and gentlemen at evening parties; Eve′ning-prim′rose, a species of Œnothera, native of Virginia, but now naturalised in many parts of Europe on river-banks, in thickets, &c.—eaten after dinner it incites to wine-drinking; Eve′ning star, applied to Venus, when seen in the west setting soon after the sun; Ev′ensong, evening prayer, the Anglican form appointed to be said or sung at evening: the time proper for such; Ev′entide, the time of evening, evening. [A.S. ǽfnung, from ǽfen, even.]

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. evening

   A specific known time of day.

   Summer evenings are beautiful to be outdoors listening to the birds in the garden.

   Submitted by MaryC on April 5, 2020  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Evening' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #731

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Evening' in Written Corpus Frequency: #766

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Evening' in Nouns Frequency: #260

How to pronounce Evening?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say Evening in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Evening in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Evening in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Evening in a Sentence

1. The FBI:

   This evening, they returned to Washington with their father, David Cook, and stepmother, Helen Cook, after being reunited in Mexico earlier today.

2. Clemens Jellema:

   You want people to get drawn to the deck and really come out and enjoy it in the evening or weekend, that’s when the design is a success.

3. President Barack Obama:

   To see people gathered in an evening outside on a beautiful summer night and to feel whole and to feel accepted and to feel that they had a right to love - that was pretty cool, that was a good thing.

4. Nan Whaley:

   I really want to -- think about that minute. The shooter was able to kill nine people and injure 26 in less than a minute, and if we did not have police in the Oregon District and the thousands of people in the Oregon District enjoying their Saturday evening, what we could have had in this city.

5. Donald Trump:

   Hundreds of times I heard, there is no, you know, there's no route, there is no route to 270 and we ended with 306. So they were right. Not 270. 306. That was some evening.

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