evening
The time of day between afternoon and night.
Noun 4 meanings
The time of day between afternoon and night.
“Toward evening, there was heavy rain.”
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.
A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something.
“It was the evening of the Roman Empire.”
A party or gathering held in the evening.
Etymology
From Middle English evening, evenyng, from Old English ǣfnung, from ǣfnian (“to become evening”), from ǣfen (“eve”) (from Proto-West Germanic *ābanþ, from Proto-Germanic *ēbanþs), corresponding to even + -ing.
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EVENING at a glance
EVENING has 7 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (E 1 + V 4 + E 1 + N 1 + I 1 + N 1 + G 2) and 15 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,410 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with evening
All rhymes- BEING8
- GOING7
- SOMETHING15
- DURING8
- THING9
- DOING7
- HAVING13
- GETTING9
- LOOKING12
- ANYTHING15
- NOTHING11
- EVERYTHING20
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- OVENING11
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