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Meaning: The latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) Classified under: Nouns denoting time and temporal relations Synonyms: Context example: he enjoyed the evening light across the lake Hypernyms ("evening" is a kind of...): day; daylight; daytime (the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside) Meronyms (parts of "evening"): sundown; sunset (the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon) crepuscle; crepuscule; dusk; evenfall; fall; gloam; gloaming; nightfall; twilight (the time of day immediately following sunset) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evening"): guest night (an evening when members of a club or college can bring their friends as guests)
Meaning: A later concluding time period Classified under: Nouns denoting time and temporal relations Context example: it was the evening of the Roman Empire Hypernyms ("evening" is a kind of...): period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Meaning: The early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way Classified under: Nouns denoting time and temporal relations Context example: an evening at the opera Hypernyms ("evening" is a kind of...): period; period of time; time period (an amount of time) Holonyms ("evening" is a part of...): dark; night; nighttime (the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside) "Doctors make the worst patients." (English proverb) "Who starts making the dough, will also cook." (Albanian proverb) "Maybe he wanted to throw himself in the well, would you follow?" (Armenian proverb) "Half an egg is better than an empty shell." (Dutch proverb) Useful links: Meaning of sunset Pronunciation of nightfall Meaning of period Pronunciation of period of time Meaning of dark
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