Meaning

4 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)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.

    Abend

    ве́черvéčer

    ве́чірvéčir

    the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)

  2. (countable, uncountable)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.

    Abend

    ве́черvéčer, де́ньdénʹ

    ве́чірvéčir

  3. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)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.

    Dämmerung

    зака́т жи́зниzakát žízni, о́сень жи́зниósenʹ žízni

    a later concluding time period

  4. (countable, uncountable)A party or gathering held in the evening.

    вечери́нкаvečerínka, суаре́suarɛ́

Examples

2225 sentences
  1. Thank you for the pleasant evening.

    Дякую за гарний вечір.

    ruСпасибо за приятный вечер.

    deDanke für den angenehmen Abend.

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  2. We arrived here in the evening.

    Ми приїхали сюди ввечері.

    ruМы приехали сюда вечером.

    deWir sind hier abends angekommen.

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  3. What are you doing this evening?

    Чим ти займаєшся сьогодні ввечері?

    ruЧто вы делаете сегодня вечером?

    deWas machst du heute Abend?

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  4. I'll call you up this evening.

    Я тобі зателефоную ввечорі.

    ruЯ позвоню тебе сегодня вечером.

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  5. Let's give a party this evening.

    Давайте влаштуємо сьогодні вечірку.

    ruДавайте устроим сегодня вечеринку.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
time of day between dusk and night:
Русский
By meaning 4
time of day between dusk and night:
time of day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight:
figurative: concluding time period:
a party or gathering held in the evening:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
time of day between dusk and night:
figurative: concluding time period:

Origin

From Middle English evening, evenyng, from Old English ǣfnung, from ǣfnian (“to become eve

From Middle English evening, evenyng, from Old English ǣfnung, from ǣfnian (“to become evening”), from ǣfen (“eve”) (from Proto-West Germanic *ābanþ, from Proto-Germanic *ēbanþs), corresponding to even + -ing.

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Forms

plural: evenings
Singularevening
Pluralevenings

regular

Synonyms

13 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall):eveeveneventide
  • a conventional expression of greeting or farewell, used to wish someone a good evening:good evening

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

46 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • in the evening
  • monday evening
  • every evening
  • that this evening
  • tomorrow evening
  • home this evening
  • yesterday evening
  • evenings evenings
  • almost every evening
  • spent the evening
  • dinner this evening
  • out this evening

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
evening — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto