ev'ning

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