evening

(obsolete) levelling, equalisation, act or process of making or becoming even or equal


evening

Toward evening, there was heavy rain.

Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.

2013 July–August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:

The time of day between afternoon and night.

At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:

That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

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.

It was the evening of the Roman Empire.

The latter [locomotive] had worked on the Hampton Court branch for many years, and was spending the evening of its life in the West Country.

1950 January, “Notes and News: The North Cornwall Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 62:

(figuratively) A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something.

A few Gorllewin Cymru/West Wales Branch members attended an evening at the Dragon Hotel, Swansea, titled Photographic Techniques in Industry.

A party or gathering held in the evening.

en-noun

evening (countable and uncountable, plural evenings)

а́хәылԥаз

time of day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight

noite

only when contrasted with madrugada; noite more commonly refers to the whole period from sunset to dawn

вечери́нка

a party or gathering held in the evening

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