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eevning

eevning is the obsolete form of evening.

Meaning of evening

Noun

evening (countable and uncountable, plural evenings)

  1. The time of day between afternoon and night.
    • Toward evening, there was heavy rain.
  2. The time of the day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight (compare afternoon); the period after the end of regular office working hours.
    • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a...1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC
  3. (figuratively) A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something.
    • It was the evening of the Roman Empire.
  4. A party or gathering held in the evening.
    • A few Gorllewin Cymru/West Wales Branch members attended an evening at the Dragon Hotel, Swansea, titled Photographic Techniques in Industry.1980, Management Services, page 50

Forms of eevning

pluraleevnings

Questions about eevning

What is eevning the obsolete form of?
Eevning is the obsolete form of evening.

Words near eevning in the dictionary

  1. Eeveelution
  2. Eeveelutions
  3. eeven
  4. eevens
  5. eevn
  6. eevning
  7. eevnings
  8. eevns
  9. eevolution
  10. eevolutions
  11. eew

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