Etimology
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.
noun
evening (countable and uncountable, plural evenings)
A vague time of day sometime between sunset and midnight.
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.
(figuratively) A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something.
A party or gathering held in the evening.
Examples
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.
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.
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.
It was the evening of the Roman Empire.
The latter [locomotive] had worked on the Hampton Court branch for many years, and was spending the evening of its life in the West Country.
A few Gorllewin Cymru/West Wales Branch members attended an evening at the Dragon Hotel, Swansea, titled Photographic Techniques in Industry.
Related words
synonyms
(time of day): eve, eventide; see also Thesaurus:evening
coordinate terms
(times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight (Category: en:Times of day)
related terms
eve
even
Etimology
Inflected forms.
verb
evening
present participle and gerund of even
Etimology
Inflected forms.
verb
evening
present participle and gerund of evene