Related Searches
Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | latter part of a day |
| Synonyms: | black, close, dark, decline, dim, dusk, duskiness, early black, eve, even, eventide, late afternoon, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight |
| Antonyms: | morning |
| Main Entry: | evening |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
nighttripping, noctambulous, noctilucent, noctilucous, noctivagant, nocturnal, nowanights, pannychous, thestreen, vespertine, yestreen
|
| 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].
|
| Antonyms: | morning |
| Browse Concept Index » | |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place, time without light |
| Synonyms: | caliginosity, darkness, dead of night, dimness, dusk, duskiness, evening, gloom, midnight, murk, murkiness, night, nightfall, nighttime, obscurity, opacity, semidarkness, shade, shadows, twilight, witching hour |
| Antonyms: | brightness, day, daylight, daytime, illumination, light, lightness, morning |
| Main Entry: | night |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | part of day after sundown and before sunrise |
| Synonyms: | after dark, after hours, bedtime, before dawn, black*, blackness, dark, dark hours, darkness, dead of night, dim, dusk to dawn, duskiness, evening, eventide, gloom, midnight, nightfall, nighttide, nighttime, obscurity*, pitch dark, twilight, witching hour |
| Antonyms: | day |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | twilight |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | onset of darkness at end of day |
| Synonyms: | afterglow, afterlight, crepuscular light, decline, dimness, dusk, early evening, ebb, end, evening, eventide, gloaming, half-light, last phase, late-afternoon, night, nightfall, sundown, sunset |
| Antonyms: | daybreak, sunrise |
| Main Entry: | visit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | social call upon another |
| Synonyms: | appointment, call, evening, holiday, interview, sojourn, stay, stop, stopover, talk, tarriance, vacation, visitation, weekend |
| Notes: | a visit is an instance of visiting; a visitation is an act of visiting - with visitation carrying the connotation of an unexpected or undesired occurrence |
| Main Entry: | eve |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | night before |
| Synonyms: | brink, evening, evening before, night, threshold, verge, vigil |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
