Definitions for evening

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evening eve·ning

Spelling: [eev-ning]

IPA: /ˈiv nɪŋ/

Evening is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in evening (eeginnv).

Definitions for evening

noun

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:

Idioms

1. break even, to have one's profits equal one's losses; neither gain nor lose:
2. get even, to be revenged; retaliate:

adverb

1. evenly:
2. still; yet (used to emphasize a comparative):
3. (used to suggest that something mentioned as a possibility constitutes an extreme case or an unlikely instance):
4. just (used to emphasize occurrence, coincidence, or simultaneousness of occurrences):
5. fully or quite:
6. indeed (used as an intensive for stressing the identity or truth of something):
7. exactly or precisely:

adjective

1. of or relating to evening:
2. occurring or seen in the evening:
3. level; flat; without surface irregularities; smooth:
4. on the same level; in the same plane or line; parallel:
5. free from variations or fluctuations; regular:
6. uniform in action, character, or quality:
7. equal in measure or quantity:
8. divisible by two, as a number (opposed to odd).
9. denoted by such a number:
10. exactly expressible in integers, or in tens, hundreds, etc., without fractional parts:
11. Mathematics. (of a function) having a sign that remains the same when the sign of each independent variable is changed at the same time.
12. equally balanced or divided; equal:
13. leaving no balance of debt on either side; square:
14. calm; placid; not easily excited or angered:
15. equitable, impartial, or fair:

Verb phrases

1. even out, to make or become even, smooth, or flat: to become equal, balanced, stable, etc.:

verb (used with object)

1. to make even; level; smooth (sometimes followed by out):
2. to place in an even state as to claim or obligation; balance (often followed by up):

verb (used without object)

1. to become even:

Origin of evening

before 1000; Middle English; Old English ǣfnung, equivalent to ǣfn(ian) draw toward evening + -ung noun suffix

Examples for evening

But by Wednesday evening there was little in the way of organized protests or random unrest in the area.

People come to The Ball with many different goals in mind, depending on what they are looking for that evening.

He spent such an evening there at the end of their first month in New York.

It was neither the best nor worst pickup line I encountered that evening.

In consideration of the health of Paralus, the customary evening procession was dispensed with.

"Some portions of the evening I enjoyed exceedingly," replied Philothea.

Since he went to Salamis in search of you, I have not seen him until late this evening.

For more than an hour, there was perfect stillness, as the shades of evening deepened.

You had a great line in your piece on Geoffrey Beene about the “genre” of evening wear.

That latter fear crossed my mind more than once during the evening.