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eve·ning

(ēv′nĭng)

1. The period of decreasing daylight between afternoon and night.

2. The period between sunset or the evening meal and bedtime: a quiet evening at home.

3. A later period or time: in the evening of one's life.

4. Chiefly Southern US The time from noon to twilight.

[Middle English, from Old English ǣfnung, from ǣfnian, to become evening, from ǣfen, evening.]

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evening

(ˈiːvnɪŋ)

1. the latter part of the day, esp from late afternoon until nightfall

2. the latter or concluding period: the evening of one's life.

3. the early part of the night spent in a specified way: an evening at the theatre.

4. an entertainment, meeting, or reception held in the early part of the night

5. dialect Southern US and Brit the period between noon and sunset

6. (modifier) of, used, or occurring in the evening: the evening papers.

[Old English ǣfnung; related to Old Frisian ēvend, Old High German āband]

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eve•ning

(ˈiv nɪŋ)

n.

1. the latter part of the day and early part of the night.

2. the period from sunset to bedtime.

3. Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. the time between noon and sunset, including the afternoon and twilight.

4. any concluding or declining period.

5. an evening's reception or entertainment.

adj.

6. of or pertaining to evening.

7. occurring or seen in the evening.

[before 1000; Middle English; Old English ǣfnung=ǣfn(ian) draw toward evening (derivative of ǣfen even2)]

evening

- Its Old English base meant "grow towards night," as evening extends from sunset to dark.

evening

The evening is the part of each day between the end of the afternoon and the time when you go to bed.

1. the present day

You refer to the evening of the present day as this evening.

Come and have dinner with me this evening.

I came here this evening because I wanted to be on my own.

You can refer to the evening of the previous day as yesterday evening, but it is more common to say last night.

'So you saw me in King Street yesterday evening?' – 'Yes.'

I met your husband last night.

I've been thinking about what we said last night.

You refer to the evening of the next day as tomorrow evening or tomorrow night.

Gerald's giving a little party tomorrow evening.

Will you be home in time for dinner tomorrow night?

2. single events in the past

If you want to say that something happened during a particular evening in the past, you use on.

She telephoned Ida on Tuesday evening.

On the evening after the party, Dirk went to see Erik.

If you have been describing what happened during a particular day, you can say that something happened that evening or in the evening.

That evening the children asked me to watch television with them.

He came back in the evening.

If you are talking about a day in the past and you want to mention that something had happened during the evening of the day before, you say that it had happened the previous evening or the evening before.

Douglas had spent the previous evening at a hotel.

Freya opened the gift Beth had given her the evening before.

If you want to say that something happened during the evening of the next day, you say that it happened the following evening.

Mopani arrived at their house the following evening.

I told Patricia that I would take her for dinner the following evening.

3. talking about the future

If you want to say that something will happen during a particular evening in the future, you use on.

The winning project will be announced on Monday evening.

I will write to her on Sunday evening.

If you are already talking about a day in the future, you can say that something will happen in the evening.

The school sports day will be on June 22 with prizegiving in the evening.

4. regular events

If something happens regularly every evening, you say that it happens in the evening or in the evenings.

In the evening I like to iron my clothes as this is one less job for the morning.

And what do you do in the evenings?

In American English, evenings does not require 'in' or 'on'.

I like to go out evenings with friends.

If you want to say that something happens regularly once a week during a particular evening, you use on followed by the name of the day and evenings.

He plays chess on Monday evenings.

We would all gather there on Friday evenings.

American English does not require 'on'.

Friday evenings he visited with his father.

5. exact times

If you have mentioned an exact time and you want to make it clear that you are talking about the evening rather than the morning, you add in the evening.

He arrived about six in the evening.

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Noun	1.	evening - the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall); "he enjoyed the evening light across the lake" even, eventide, eve daylight, daytime, day - the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside; "the dawn turned night into day"; "it is easier to make the repairs in the daytime" guest night - an evening when members of a club or college can bring their friends as guests sundown, sunset - the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight, fall - the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"
	2.	evening - a later concluding time period; "it was the evening of the Roman Empire" figure of speech, trope, image, figure - language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
	3.	evening - the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way; "an evening at the opera" period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" night, nighttime, dark - the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

evening

noun dusk (archaic), night, sunset, twilight, sundown, eve, vesper (archaic), eventide (archaic or poetic), gloaming (Scot. or poetic), e'en (archaic or poetic), close of day, crepuscule, even Finally towards late evening the carnival entered its final stage.

Quotations
"It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,"
"The holy time is quiet as a nun,"
"Breathless with adoration" [William Wordsworth It is a Beauteous Evening]
"The curfew tolls the knell of passing day" [Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard]
"Let us go then, you and I"
"When the evening is spread out against the sky"
"Like a patient etherized upon a table" [T.S. Eliot Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock]

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

evening

noun

The period between afternoon and nighttime:

dusk, eve, eventide, gloaming, nightfall, twilight.

Archaic: even, vesper.

Translations

مَساءفي الجُزْءِ الأخير، المَرْحَلَه الأخيرَه

večer

aftenlivsaften

Abend Abendzeit Lebensabend

βράδι βραδινός βράδυ νυχτολούλουδο

vespero

noche tarde atardecer

õhtu

ilta

soir soirée

večerjesen

élet: az élet alkonyaeste

ævikvöld; lokaskeiîkvöld

sera serata serotino

晩

저녁

saulėlydisvakarinė suknelėvakariniai rūbaivakarinis

vakarsvakara-

večerný

večer

kväll

เย็นเวลาเย็น

akşamömrün son yılları

buổi tối

傍晚晚年晚间

evening

[ˈiːvnɪŋ]

A. N (before dark) → tarde f; (after dark) → noche f
in the evening → por la tarde/noche
this evening → esta tarde/noche
tomorrow/yesterday evening → mañana/ayer por la tarde/noche
on Sunday evening → el domingo por la tarde/noche
evening was coming on → estaba atardeciendo/anocheciendo
she spends her evenings knitting → pasa las tardes haciendo punto
good evening! (early) → ¡buenas tardes!; (after sunset) → ¡buenas noches!

B. CPD evening class N → clase f nocturna
evening dress N (woman's) → traje m de noche; (man's) → traje m de etiqueta
in evening dress (man, woman) → vestido/a de etiqueta
evening fixture N (Sport) → partido m por la noche
evening institute N → escuela f nocturna
evening match N = evening fixture evening paper N → periódico m de la tarde, vespertino m
evening performance N (Theat) → función f de noche
evening prayers NPL = evening service evening service N (Rel) → vísperas fpl, misa f vespertina
evening star N → estrella f de Venus

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

evening

[ˈiːvnɪŋ]

→ soir m
in the evening → le soir
at 6.00 in the evening → à six heures du soir
this evening → ce soir
that evening → ce soir-là
yesterday evening → hier soir
tomorrow evening → demain soir

(as duration, event) → soirée f
all evening → toute la soirée

modif [meeting] → en soirée; [flight] → du soir evening mealevening class n → cours m du soir
to go to an evening class → prendre des cours du soirevening dress n

(man's) → tenue f de soirée
to be in evening dress [man] → être en tenue de soirée

(woman's) → robe f de soirée, robe f du soir
in an evening dress [woman] → en robe du soir, en robe de soiréeevening gown n → robe f de soiréeevening meal n → dîner mevening paper n → journal m du soirevening performance n [play] → représentation f en soiréeevening primrose n → onagre fevening primrose oil n → huile f d'onagreevening reception n (at wedding) soirée qui se tient après la cérémonie du mariageevening wear n → tenues fpl de soirée

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

evening

n → Abend m; in the evening → abends, am Abend; this/ tomorrow/yesterday evening → heute/morgen/gestern Abend; that evening → an jenem Abend; that evening was … → jener Abend war …; on the evening of the twenty-ninth → am Abend des 29., am 29. abends; one evening as I … → eines Abends, als ich …; every Monday evening → jeden Montagabend; all evening → den ganzen Abend (lang or über); the evening of his life (liter) → sein Lebensabend

evening

evening class

n → Abendkurs m; to go to or take eveninges or an evening in French → einen Abendkurs in Französisch besuchen

evening dress

n (men’s) → Abendanzug m, → Gesellschaftsanzug m; (women’s) → Abendkleid nt

evening gown

n → Abendkleid nt

evening meal

n (Brit) → Abendessen nt

evening paper

n → Abendzeitung f

evening star

n → Abendstern m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

evening

[ˈiːvnɪŋ]

1. n → sera; (as duration, event) → serata
in the evening → di sera, la sera
this evening → stasera, questa sera
tomorrow/yesterday evening → domani/ieri sera
on Sunday evening → domenica sera
on the evening of the 30th → la sera del 30
she spends her evenings knitting → trascorre le sue serate a fare la maglia
good evening! → buona sera!

2. adj (paper, prayers, service) → della sera; (performance) → serale

evening

(iːvniŋ) noun

1. the part of the day between the afternoon and the night. He leaves the house in the morning and returns in the evening; summer evenings; tomorrow evening; on Tuesday evening; early evening; (also adjective) the evening performance.

2. the last part (of one's life etc). in the evening of her life.

evening dress

1. clothes worn for formal occasions in the evening.

2. a formal dress worn by a woman in the evening.

evening

→ مَساء večer aften Abend βράδι noche ilta soir večer sera 晩 저녁 avond kveld wieczór noite вечер kväll เวลาเย็น akşam buổi tối 晚间

evening

n. tardecita, anochecer, por la noche;

last ___ → ayer por la noche;

this ___ → esta noche.

evening

n (early) tarde f, (after dark) noche f

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Never at any time have I been able to bear the flunkeyishness which one meets in the Press of the world at large, but more especially in that of Russia, where, almost every evening, journalists write on two subjects in particular namely, on the splendour and luxury of the casinos to be found in the Rhenish towns, and on the heaps of gold which are daily to be seen lying on their tables.

Polina's money I decided to risk, that evening, only to the amount of 100 gulden.

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I only wished to say..." (he wanted to repeat a joke he had heard in Vienna and which he had been trying all that evening to get in) "I only wished to say that we are wrong to fight pour le Roi de Prusse!"

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Yet during the whole of that day he was haunted with a vague uneasiness, at the bottom of which was the fear lest Rosa should not come in the evening to pay him her usual visit.

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Towers Chandler was pressing his evening suit in his hall bedroom.

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But she often used to come to the hospital yard, especially in the evening, sometimes only to stand a minute and look up at the windows of the ward.

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One evening went Zarathustra and his disciples through the forest; and when he sought for a well, lo, he lighted upon a green meadow peacefully surrounded with trees and bushes, where maidens were dancing together.

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gave a farewell party in honor of Anne and Gilbert one evening at the home of Josie Pye, choosing that place, partly because Mr.

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Not unfrequently, through Emma's persuasion, he had some of the chosen and the best to dine with him: but evening parties were what he preferred; and, unless he fancied himself at any time unequal to company, there was scarcely an evening in the week in which Emma could not make up a cardtable for him.

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Jane pictured to herself a happy evening in the society of her two friends, and the attentions of her brother; and Elizabeth thought with pleasure of dancing a great deal with Mr.

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"Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes." So Levin thought about his wife as he talked to her that evening.

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Sometimes--weeks had crept on, then--the child, exhausted, though with little fatigue, would pass whole evenings on a couch beside the fire.