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evenlight

evenlight noun: the light of evening; twilight.

Noun

evenlight (uncountable)

  1. The light of evening; twilight.
    • Here at the window in the evenlight I lean my ears to summon once again The sound of memory in its sweet refrain, [...]1907, Folger McKinsey, A rose of the old regime and other poems of home-love and childhood
    • The doings of Grendel, In far-off fatherland I fully did know of: Sea-farers tell us, this hall-building standeth, Excellent edifice, empty and useless To all the earlmen after evenlight's glimmer 'Neath heaven's bright hues [...]1908, John Lesslie Hall, Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem

Examples of evenlight in a sentence

  • When a little child lies in your arms at night, What do you care for care; When her little lips sing in the evenlight, And her little arms clasp you there?1910, National Lumberman, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
  • Search further and the past presents you still New Ninas, new Alcamas, time's mid-night Concluding, — better say its evenlight Of yesterday.1911, Robert Browning, The Poems & Plays of Robert Browning:

Origin of evenlight

From Middle English evenlight, evenelyȝth, from Old English ǣfenlēoht (“evening light”), equivalent to even + light. Cognate with Dutch avondlicht (“evening light”), German Abendlicht (“evening light”).

Questions about evenlight

What does evenlight mean?
Evenlight means the light of evening; twilight.
How do you use evenlight in a sentence?
When a little child lies in your arms at night, What do you care for care; When her little lips sing in the evenlight, And her little arms clasp you there?
What part of speech is evenlight?
Evenlight is a noun.

Words near evenlight in the dictionary

  1. Evenk
  2. Evenk Autonomous Okrug
  3. Evenki
  4. evenkite
  5. Evenks
  6. evenlight
  7. evenlike
  8. Evenlode
  9. evenly
  10. evenly divisible
  11. evenmete

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