evening
noun
[ ˈiːv(ə)nɪŋ ]
• the period of time at the end of the day, usually from about 6 p.m. to bedtime.
• "it was seven o'clock in the evening"
Similar:
night,
late afternoon,
end of day,
close of day,
twilight,
dusk,
nightfall,
sunset,
sundown,
eve,
even,
eventide,
evenfall,
gloaming,
evening
adverb
• in the evening; every evening.
• "Saturday evenings he invariably fell asleep"
evening
exclamation
• short for good evening.
Origin:
Old English ǣfnung ‘dusk falling, the time around sunset’, from ǣfnian ‘approach evening’, from ǣfen (see even2).
even
verb
• make or become even.
• "she cut the hair again to even up the ends"
Similar:
flatten,
make flat,
make level,
level,
level off,
level out,
smooth,
smooth out,
smooth off,
make flush,
plane,
make uniform,
make regular,
equalize,
make equal,
make even,
level up,
make the same,
balance,
square,
make comparable,
standardize,
regularize,
equilibrize,
Origin:
Old English efen (adjective), efne (adverb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch even, effen and German eben .
of an evening
• on most evenings.
• "he has a healthy diet consisting of cereal in the morning and meat and two veg of an evening"
• at some time in the evenings.
• "you can wear these dresses of an evening or during the day"
