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evenings

Syllables: eve·nings/ˈiːvnɪŋz/

evenings adverb: in the evening, during the evening. Also the plural of evening.

Adverb

evenings (not comparable)

  1. (dated, informal) In the evening, during the evening.
    • He had ordered her not to go out evenings, and warned her that she must never let him catch her in company with a young man, who was paying attention to her belonging to Colonel Lloyd.1846 [1845], Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Boston: Anti-Slavery Office

Also used as

evenings is also the plural of evening.

evenings meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada

evenings in Tamil

மாலைகள்

evenings in Telugu

సాయంత్రాలు

evenings in Malayalam

വൈകുന്നേരങ്ങൾ, സായാഹ്നങ്ങൾ

evenings in Kannada

ಸಂಜೆಗಳು
More languagesFewer languages
evenings in Punjabi
ਸ਼ਾਮਾਂ
evenings in Nepali
साँझहरू

Examples of evenings in a sentence

  • Of an evening, I like to play chess. i.e., On some evenings, I like to play chess.
  • Jeff No-Mates spends his evenings on the computer instead of going down to the pub.
  • It's that time of year again when the evenings really start to draw in.

All 40 example sentences with evenings

Origin of evenings

From evening + -s (adverbial suffix). Compare with Dutch avonds, Low German avends, German abends.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Phrases with evenings

Questions about evenings

What does evenings mean?
Evenings means in the evening, during the evening.
What is evenings in Tamil?
Evenings in Tamil is மாலைகள். See Evenings meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is evenings?
Evenings is an adverb.
How do you pronounce evenings?
Evenings is pronounced /ˈiːvnɪŋz/.

Words near evenings in the dictionary

  1. eveningish
  2. eveningless
  3. eveninglike
  4. eveningness
  5. eveningprimrose
  6. evenings
  7. evenings out
  8. eveningsful
  9. eveningtide
  10. eveningtime
  11. eveningwear

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Adapted from Wiktionary: evenings (page history and authors); evenings (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); evenings (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); evenings (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); evenings (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); evenings (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); evenings (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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