evening

Noun

evening (countable and uncountable, plural evenings)

1. The time of day between afternoon and night.
   • Toward evening, there was heavy rain.
   • I met my wife on a summer's evening in 1999.
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
   • That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →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.
   • The latter [locomotive] had worked on the Hampton Court branch for many years, and was spending the evening of its life in the West Country.1950 January, “Notes and News: The North Cornwall Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 62
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