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Eventide

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Evening.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. evening

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The time of evening; evening.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The time of evening.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)

Word Usage

"[21] As the Jewish sabbath began at six o'clock on Friday evening, and lasted till six on Saturday evening, we may infer it was after the close of its sacred hours (at "eventide") He reached Bethany."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

daytime day daylight

Hyponym

guest night

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

evening

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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