Definitions for vespertine

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vespertine ves·per·tine

Spelling: [ves-per-tin, -tahyn]

IPA: /ˈvɛs pər tɪn, -ˌtaɪn/

Vespertine is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 581 anagrams from letters in vespertine (eeeinprstv).

Definitions for vespertine

adjective

1. of, relating to, or occurring in the evening:
2. Botany. opening or expanding in the evening, as certain flowers.
3. Zoology. appearing or flying in the early evening; crepuscular.

Origin of vespertine

1495-1505; Latin vespertīnus, equivalent to vesper vesper + -tīnus adj. suffix

Examples for vespertine

Up Broadway Chandler moved with the vespertine dress parade.

Odors from strong bacon and boiling coffee contended against the cut-plug fumes from the vespertine pipe.

The vespertine hour was nigh, and over this iron landscape there floated the moon, an opal button in the sky.