Eventide

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  • noun. Evening.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The time of evening.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The time of evening; evening.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. evening
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. 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."
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    day  daylight  daytime  
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    close of day  cockshut  dimpsy  dusk  eve