evening

The part of the day between late afternoon and midnight.

• See you this evening.
• We usually eat together in the evening.
• Did you enjoy your evening at home?

Opposites: morning

Common phrases: in the evening, this evening, early evening, tomorrow evening

A party or other social event held during the later part of the day.

• We attended a musical evening.
• The club holds social evenings every month.
• She invited us to an evening of poetry and music.

How to use it: evening of something (They organized an evening of music and dancing.)

Similar words: gathering, party

Common phrases: musical evening, charity evening, social evening

The final part of someone’s life or of a long period in history.

• She travelled in the evening of her life.
• The novel is set in the evening of a great empire.
• In life’s evening, he returned to his childhood village.

How to use it: the evening of something (He found peace in the evening of his life.)

Similar words: closing years, final period

Opposites: beginning

Common phrases: evening of life, evening of empire, life’s evening