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 of evening afterlife, afternoon, autumn, ageWords Related to evening sunset, twilight, winter; anecdotage, dotage, senility; elderliness, golden years, oldness, seniority; adulthood, majority, maturity, middle, middle age, midlife, ripenessNear Antonyms of evening adolescence, youthAntonyms of evening 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 of evening crepuscule (or crepuscle), eve, evenfall, dusk, eventide, gloaming, night, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilightWords Related to evening dark, darkness, nighttimeNear Antonyms of evening day, daytime, light; forenoonAntonyms of evening aurora, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, daylight, morn, morning, sunrise, sunup