Synonyms for evening
Definitions
- n. 1
The time of day between afternoon and night.
Toward evening, there was heavy rain.
Related words
- Word family
- eveningtide eveningwear eve even evensong
- Phrases
- evening dress evening gown evening prayer evening star evening bat evening botanist evening glove evening out
- Is a kind of
- daytime nighttime
Forms
- Plural
- evenings → nights, nightfalls, dusks, sunsets…
Example sentences
- night We bedded down at the roadside park for the night.
- sunset The farmer rose at sunrise and worked till sunset.
- dusk Sometimes I work from dawn to dusk in the fields.
- nightfall Let's stay until nightfall and watch the fireworks.
By length
- 3 letters
- set1
- 4 letters
- dusk1
- 5 letters
- night1
- 6 letters
- sunset2, vesper2, undern
- 8 letters
- twilight2, eventide, gloaming2
- 9 letters
- nightfall2
- 11 letters
- eveningtide, eveningtime
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (sunset2 = 2 syllables).