evening

evening

noun

Definition of EVENING

1

a later period of one's life <now in the evening of their lives, the married couple are ready to hand the family business over to the next generation>

Synonyms afterlife, afternoon, autumn, evening

Related Words sunset, twilight, winter; anecdotage, dotage, senility; elderliness, golden years, oldness, seniority; adulthood, majority, maturity, middle, middle age, midlife, ripeness

Near Antonyms adolescence, youth

Antonyms springtime

2

the time from when the sun begins to set to the onset of total darkness <in the evening a reddish glow often appears on the mountaintops>

Synonyms crepuscule (or crepuscle), eve, evenfall, evening, eventide, gloaming, night, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight

Related Words dark, darkness, nighttime

Near Antonyms day, daytime, light; forenoon

Antonyms aurora, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, daylight, morn, morning, sunrise, sunup