Other forms: evenings
The evening is the part of the day when the sun goes down and dinner is eaten. This evening, in the evening, a quiet evening.
The prepositions follow the same pattern as morning: in the evening generally, on Friday evening for a named day, and this evening with none. Good evening is the greeting after about six. Note evening dress, evening class, evening paper; and that in northern England evening and afternoon divide at a different hour from the south, which nobody agrees about.
1nouneveningThe part of the day when the sun goes down.
“The evening light on that wall lasts about twenty minutes.”
evening is a part of the day.
Old English aefnung comes from aefen, evening, and it was built on the model of morning. The old word survives in eve, as in Christmas Eve, and in the poetic even.
Old English
ǣfnung
Middle English
evening
English, today
evening
Built from
From Middle English evening, from Old English ǣfnung. 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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA