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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
evening
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fine day/morning/evening
a fun day/evening etc
a morning/afternoon/evening shift
▪ All the machines are cleaned at the end of every afternoon shift.
a summer's day/evening (also a summer day/evening)
▪ It was a beautiful summer's day.
an evening bag (=a small bag that a woman takes out with her in the evening)
▪ She put her lipstick in a black velvet evening bag.
an evening breeze
▪ People were out walking, enjoying the evening breeze.
an evening class
▪ Mum goes to an evening class on Tuesdays.
an evening dress (=a formal dress to wear in the evening)
▪ She arrived in a red evening dress.
an evening paper
▪ Ian usually buys an evening paper on his way home.
an evening/midday meal
▪ The evening meal is served at 7.30.
chilly day/night/evening etc
▪ a chilly November morning
early in the morning/afternoon/evening
▪ We set off early in the morning.
early morning/afternoon/evening
▪ The lake looked beautiful in the pale early morning light.
evening class
evening clothes
▪ I don’t often have a chance to wear formal evening clothes.
evening dress
evening primrose
evening wearformal (= clothes worn to formal events in the evening)
▪ The band were dressed in evening wear.
good evening
in the cool of the evening
▪ They went for a stroll in the cool of the evening.
morning/afternoon/evening calm
▪ A scream shattered the late afternoon calm.
morning/evening/midnight etc Mass
▪ Will I see you at morning Mass?
the morning/afternoon/evening sun
▪ We ate breakfast outside in the gentle morning sun.
the morning/afternoon/evening sunlight
▪ Their armour glinted in the early morning sunlight.
the morning/afternoon/evening sunshine
▪ The morning sunshine brightened the room.
the morning/evening mist
▪ The sun broke through the morning mist.
the morning/evening/night air
▪ He stepped out and breathed in the cold morning air.
the night/evening/morning sky
▪ The moon is the brightest object visible in the night sky.
wedding/evening/ball gown
▪ a white silk wedding gown
yesterday morning/afternoon/evening
▪ Anna left yesterday afternoon.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
early
▪ On Christmas Eve my nine-year-old grandson James was admitted in the early evening for an emergency appendix operation.
▪ But perhaps the early evening was better still?
▪ Fish come up from the deep sea in the early morning and the early evening.
▪ For the rest of the afternoon and early evening Lucenzo avoided her, and her nerves reached breaking-point.
▪ Lunchtime or early evening are preferable.
▪ George would spend early evenings lying on the hillside with her, professing his love.
▪ His design shows a new York skyline on an early summer evening.
▪ The early evening had been fine and then it darkened over with thundercloud and got warmer.
good
▪ Video-Taped report follows Read in studio Good evening.
▪ A star signaled overhead and he saw it. Good evening, Mitchell said.
▪ Ah, good evening, Lestrade!
▪ It was, had been, too good an evening to spoil it with a half-soaked wrangle.
▪ Read in studio Video-Taped report follows Voice over Read in studio Good evening.
▪ Time allowed 00:53 Read in studio Good evening.
late
▪ Jerome Topstock Theodora stepped out into the warm air of the late summer evening.
▪ Together they have lived out a day, from quiet morning to rowdy late evening.
▪ He found it was at its worst in the late evenings when he sat alone in Fern Cottage.
▪ As of late last evening, however, the major stock exchanges were planning to open today.
▪ Johnny Wilson had a repeat scheduled for late evening.
▪ It was late in the evening, and I was finishing up the layout on the last issue of the magazine.
▪ On Tuesday January 26 Michael Wilson will give a special lecture prior to late evening admission to the exhibition.
▪ It was late evening, but there was lamplight on the deck.
long
▪ A clutch of long white Friday evening faces confronted me.
▪ But a long black evening gown will.
▪ But the tick was a comfort on long evenings.
▪ It looked like darkness would fall long before evening.
▪ The cocktail and long and short evening dresses I saw, were most attractive and cleverly designed.
▪ It was a long evening, and he arrived home at two in the morning, much the worse for wear.
▪ After the long luxurious evening they went back to Kev's place.
previous
▪ Fabia awakened and, as she recalled her non-achievement of the previous evening, her mood matched the dull morning.
▪ Peter Miller had left late the previous evening.
▪ Everything was exactly the same as it had been when she'd gone to sleep the previous evening.
▪ That had been the word from Soong through the previous evening.
▪ Slowly the events of the previous evening re-assembled themselves.
▪ Eddie explained that the day's work had started at seven o'clock the previous evening when two customers telephoned requesting samples.
▪ She had not seen her daughter since 9 o'clock the previous evening.
■ NOUN
friday
▪ After several weeks of negotiations, Manzi and Jones reached a deal last Friday evening.
▪ Meet me for dinner at the Good wood Park Hotel on Friday evening: are you free?
▪ After parking on the Palladium catering hall lot Friday evening, I slipped on my tie and sports jacket.
▪ One Friday evening I realized that my voice was going and I could do nothing about it.
▪ Identities of the victims were not released by early Friday evening.
▪ My first meal was dinner on a Friday evening.
meal
▪ Price includes bed and breakfast, however evening meals may be taken at the Leonetto for a supplement.
▪ The evening meal generally includes two courses: the food cost averages £1.35p.
▪ Once a week in fine weather a barbecue replaces an evening meal.
▪ The bed and breakfast houses are within a three minute walk; the evening meal is served in the Strass.
▪ The prize includes first class rail fares to Rusland Hall and two nights' accommodation with breakfast and evening meal.
▪ For lunch and the evening meal there are several recommended local pubs and restaurants.
▪ Could she sit through their evening meal, knowing, and not telling?
▪ The four-course evening meal is home-cooked using fresh ingredients.
monday
▪ By Monday evening the devaluation was a reality; the president was back in the Kremlin.
▪ I am continuing this letter Monday evening.
▪ The service reopened on Monday evening after being down for nearly four hours.
▪ At times the Monday evening services attracted only a handful of people and seemed to have little effect.
▪ That led to detection of a second device Monday evening in a subbasement mail room.
▪ By Monday evening, authorities in Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma had joined the manhunt.
news
▪ She had seen him on the telly - he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet.
▪ The headline stories of newspapers are developed and reported on the evening news by general-assignment reporters.
▪ The nine o'clock evening news had an audience of half the population during the war, but this fell quickly in 1945.
▪ I eat off stack-up plastic tables as I watch the evening news.
▪ The result is a striking testimony to the power of television's evening news.
▪ But the overriding image carried every night on the evening news has been one of a woefully inadequate effort.
▪ We believe what we hear on the evening news and read in the morning paper.
▪ Countless examples of community-based development are rejecting the modern models and are truly making history-but they are not making the evening news.
paper
▪ His boast would also be in the later editions of the evening papers.
▪ The evening paper here has a more accurate account.
▪ An evening paper was the only way of discovering the result.
▪ But he looked worse than that when he saw the evening paper.
▪ This shake-out left only Glasgow with two evening papers.
▪ At about eight, when it was dark, Tom went downstairs to buy the evening papers.
▪ This paper is an evening paper and has a very high readership.
▪ He bought the evening papers and sat in a little restaurant a few streets away, reading them.
performance
▪ The audience were in their seats for the first of the two evening performances.
▪ Tickets are $ 10 to $ 32 for the evening performances and $ 6 to $ 20 for the matinee.
▪ Once he did as the Professor had hoped he might do, and gave Paul a ticket for an evening performance.
▪ The evening performance - a Mozart Symphony - didn't start until seven and it would mean a late return home.
▪ The read-through finished at midday to give St Ives a rest before the evening performance of Caesar and Cleopatra.
▪ It gave us a little time together before she dashed off for the evening performance.
▪ The production lasted well over three hours, and then it was soon time to get ready for the evening performance.
saturday
▪ On Saturday evenings, this Yoruba woman called Ome Boku commanded our attention.
▪ One found the pleasure principle at work again Saturday evening.
▪ There was a concert on the Saturday evening.
▪ On Saturday evening came the Easter Vigil, a night of lilies, fire and flowing water.
▪ The officer came there regularly on Saturday evenings, and the nurse dressed up to go out with him.
summer
▪ The splendid grounds form a perfect backdrop to the lakeside concerts held here on summer evenings.
▪ Your father showed you a couple of things when you played with him in the summer evenings.
▪ It was a typical summer evening in June.
▪ We crossed a park and walked through a ring of benches where peo-ple were enjoying the summer evening.
▪ I watched Ilsa climb the stairs in the golden haze of the summer evening.
▪ Society of summer evenings in Lake Wobegon was formal and genteel.
▪ Jerome Topstock Theodora stepped out into the warm air of the late summer evening.
▪ On summer evenings, when the sky remained light until nine, there was plenty of time to play ball after dinner.
sunday
▪ Late on Sunday evening, we passed Giles on his way out of his hotel.
▪ On a postcard-perfect Sunday evening, they saw the Cowboys dominate early and the Steelers dominate late.
▪ With something like amazed laughter and, of course, love, Timothy Sunday evening Timothy!
▪ On Sunday evening she would just sit there and ignore the baby.
▪ The Royal frequently failed Gatti Sunday evening in his arrogantly hysterical reading.
▪ Several years earlier, Gary had begun attending the 5: 30 mass on Sunday evenings at Holy Trinity.
▪ Jerry, what did you do in my lab that Sunday evening?
▪ As a result some 800 people jammed the church each Sunday evening at 5: 30.
■ VERB
spend
▪ What a way to spend one's first evening in Rome.
▪ Where did they spend their evenings?
▪ I couldn't say where he spent that evening, not for certain.
▪ He also spent his evenings at the roulette wheels of Monte Carlo, squandering extravagant sums.
▪ I spent most evenings and every free period from college by your bedside.
▪ John Hall spent most of his evenings getting drunk with Jim Storter.
▪ Instead of ironing, as she'd planned, she'd spend the evening with her sketchpad.
▪ Four hours later I was driving to his house for dinner and we spent the evening just talking.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
make a day/night/evening of it
▪ Why don't you make a day of it and have lunch with us?
▪ I had known Sophie for about three months by then, and she insisted on making an evening of it.
▪ Imagine how lovely it would be - you could take the whole family and make a day of it.
▪ They make a day of it, tailgating before the game and, weather permitting, after it, too.
of an evening/of a weekend etc
the still of the night/evening etc
▪ No longer are her anxious snorts heard in the still of the night.
while away the hours/evening/days etc
▪ Let's while away the hours swapping stories.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I have a class Thursday evening.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But his campaign headquarters is staffed by 20 volunteers daily, and another 20 volunteers work in phone banks each evening.
▪ Due to a shortage of whiskey that evening, the party broke up early.
▪ He decides, literally, to play for time and makes a debut at Nero's banquet that evening.
▪ However, on the evening of Wednesday 9 October another meeting was called, also in the City Hotel.
▪ One evening I showed them an article I had written in a magazine.
▪ The river level in Hillsboro was 7 feet, right at flood stage, by early evening, Crocker said.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Evening

Even \E"ven\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Evened; p. pr. & vb. n. Evening]

  1. To make even or level; to level; to lay smooth.

    His temple Xerxes evened with the soil.
    --Sir. W. Raleigh.

    It will even all inequalities
    --Evelyn.

  2. To equal. [Obs.] ``To even him in valor.''
    --Fuller.

  3. To place in an equal state, as to obligation, or in a state in which nothing is due on either side; to balance, as accounts; to make quits; to make equal; as, to even the score.
    --Shak.

  4. To set right; to complete.

  5. To act up to; to keep pace with.
    --Shak.

Evening

Evening \E"ven*ing\, n. [AS. [=ae]fnung. See even, n., and cf. Eve.]

  1. The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the decline of the day, or of the sun.

    In the ascending scale Of heaven, the stars that usher evening rose.
    --Milton.

    Note: Sometimes, especially in the Southern parts of the United States, the afternoon is called evening.
    --Bartlett.

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

    Note: Sometimes used adjectively; as, evening gun. ``Evening Prayer.''
    --Shak.

    Evening flower (Bot.), a genus of iridaceous plants ( Hesperantha) from the Cape of Good Hope, with sword-shaped leaves, and sweet-scented flowers which expand in the evening.

    Evening grosbeak (Zo["o]l.), an American singing bird ( Coccothraustes vespertina) having a very large bill. Its color is olivaceous, with the crown, wings, and tail black, and the under tail coverts yellow. So called because it sings in the evening.

    Evening primrose. See under Primrose.

    The evening star, the bright star of early evening in the western sky, soon passing below the horizon; specifically, the planet Venus; -- called also Vesper and Hesperus. During portions of the year, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are also evening stars. See Morning Star.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
evening

from Old English æfnung "the coming of evening, sunset, time around sunset," verbal noun from æfnian "become evening, grow toward evening," from æfen "evening" (see eve). As a synonym of even (n.) in the sense "time from sunset to bedtime," it dates from mid-15c. and now entirely replaces the older word in this sense. Another Old English noun for "evening" was cwildtid.

Wiktionary
evening

Etymology 1 n. The time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark. Etymology 2

vb. (present participle of even English)

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WordNet
evening

  1. n. the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall); "he enjoyed the evening light across the lake" [syn: eve, eventide]

  2. a later concluding time period; "it was the evening of the Roman Empire"

  3. the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way; "an evening at the opera"

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Gazetteer
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Wikipedia
Evening

Evening is the period of time near the end of the day, usually from 6:00 PM to nighttime. Evening can be characterized by the Sun lowering towards the horizon and by activities that usually occur during this time, such as eating dinner or having more formal social gatherings and entertainment. The term is often used up to the end of these activities, even when that time would otherwise be considered night.

Evening (film)

Evening is a 2007 American drama film directed by Lajos Koltai. The screenplay by Susan Minot and Michael Cunningham is based on the 1998 novel of the same name by Susan Minot.

Evening (magazine)

is a bi-weekly Japanese seinen manga magazine published by Kodansha, aimed at adult men. It is printed in black and white on newsprint and saddle-stapled in B5 format, and retails for 330 yen. Circulation was reported by the Japan Magazine Publishers Association at 115,617 copies in 2015.

Evening (EP)

Evening (styled as (e)vening) is the third and final EP by American alternative/ indie band Mae, following Morning and Afternoon. Copies of a limited release edition were available on the band's "Goodbye, Goodnight" tour. The EP was released in stores on March 8, 2011, bundled with a DVD recorded at the band's farewell show in Norfolk, VA.

Evening (disambiguation)

The evening is the period of the day between afternoon and night.

Evening may also refer to:

  • Evening (magazine), a Japanese magazine
  • Evening (novel), a 1998 novel by Susan Minot
    • Evening (film), a 2007 film
  • Evenings (film), a 1989 Dutch film
  • Evening (EP), EP by Mae
  • Symphony No. 8 (Haydn) by Haydn, nicknamed "Evening"
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Usage examples of "evening".

But now hold up thine heart, and keep close for these two days that we shall yet abide in Tower Dale: and trust me this very evening I shall begin to set tidings going that shall work and grow, and shall one day rejoice thine heart.

Guard Captain arrived, he told me that I could either stay in jail all night and face trial in the morning or I could trust in the judgment of the gods by being in the front ranks of the defenders when Abraxas attacked that evening.

He was sitting in a music hall one evening, sipping his absinth and admiring the art of a certain famous Russian dancer, when he caught a passing glimpse of a pair of evil black eyes upon him.

The evening light was abuzz with energy, the sky swarming up into her eyes.

After breakfast I sent for mine host and ordered an excellent supper for five persons, feeling certain that Don Sancio, whom I expected in the evening, would not refuse to honour me by accepting my invitation, and with that idea I made up my mind to go without my dinner.

The evening air had cooled considerably, and Ace sat hunched close to the campfire.

Malipiero was a senator, who was unwilling at seventy years of age to attend any more to State affairs, and enjoyed a happy, sumptuous life in his mansion, surrounded every evening by a well-chosen party of ladies who had all known how to make the best of their younger days, and of gentlemen who were always acquainted with the news of the town.

I was then in the habit of calling sometimes upon Lucrezia in the morning, and of visiting in the evening Father Georgi, who was acquainted with the excursion to Frascati, and had not expressed any dissatisfaction.

You are a stranger, sir, and may not be acquainted with our Spanish manners, consequently you are unaware of the great risk you run in going to see Nina every evening after the count has left her.

One evening, being in the box of Le Vasseur, the performance was composed of a tragedy in which a very handsome actress had the part of a dumb priestess.

In retrospect, Addle realized that the whole event should have been much more terrifying: breaking into a cemetery near midnight, on an evening when the moon was a great bloodshot eye in the sky.

I must say adieu to you, as I am compelled to go to Naples, and shall not return hither before Saturday evening or Sunday morning.

He brought Darryl Adin to the regular poker game one evening, and Dare won, resoundingly.

After a very long and angry discussion, the debate was adjourned, and on the next evening was continued by Earl Fitzwilliam and Lord Monteagle on one side, and the Earls of Haddington and Ripon on the other.

Both houses adjourned to the next evening, in order to learn the grounds upon which Lord John had come to that determination.