| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | night before |
| Synonyms: | brink, evening, evening before, night, threshold, verge, vigil |
| Main Entry: | nightfall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning of darkness |
| Synonyms: | black*, crepuscule, dim, dusk, eve, eventide, sundown, sunset, twilight, vespers |
| Antonyms: | daybreak |
| Main Entry: | sunset |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fall of sun below horizon |
| Synonyms: | close of day, crepusular light, dusk, eve, evening, eventide, gloaming, nightfall, sundown, twilight |
| Antonyms: | sunrise |
| Main Entry: | eventide |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evening |
| Synonyms: | dusk, eve, gloaming, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight |
| Main Entry: | gloaming |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evening |
| Synonyms: | black, close, dark, decline, dim, dusk, duskiness, early black, eve, even, eventide, late afternoon, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight |
| Main Entry: | vesper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evening |
| Synonyms: | black, close, dark, decline, dim, dusk, duskiness, early black, eve, even, eventide, gloaming, late afternoon, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight |
| Main Entry: | evening |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
nighttripping, noctambulous, noctilucent, noctilucous, noctivagant, nocturnal, nowanights, pannychous, thestreen, vespertine, yestreen
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| Concept: | Evening. [Midnight] |
| Category: | 2. RELATIVE TIME; Time with reference to succession |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
evening, eve; decline of day, fall of day, close of day; candlelight, candlelighting; eventide, nightfall, curfew, dusk, twilight, eleventh hour; sunset, sundown; going down of the sun, cockshut, dewy eve, gloaming, bedtime., afternoon, postmeridian, p.m., autumn; fall, fall of the leaf; autumnal equinox; Indian summer, St. Luke's summer, St. Martin's summer., midnight; dead of night, witching hour, witching hour of night, witching time of night, middle of th night; winter; killing time.
-adjectives
vespertine, autumal, nocturnal.
-phrases
"midnight, the outpost of advancing day" [Longfellow]; "sable-vested Night" [Milton]; "this gorgeous arch with golden worlds inlay'd" [Young].
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| Antonyms: | morning |
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