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| Main Entry: | |
| 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 |
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| Main Entry: | evening |
| 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: | nightfall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning of darkness |
| Synonyms: | black*, crepuscule, dim, dusk, eve, eventide, sundown, sunset, twilight, vespers |
| Antonyms: | daybreak |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | duskiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dark |
| Synonyms: | blackness, darkness, dimness, dusk, murkiness, night, sundown, sunset, twilight |
| 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 |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | evening |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
nighttripping, noctambulous, noctilucent, noctilucous, noctivagant, nocturnal, nowanights, pannychous, thestreen, vespertine, yestreen
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