evening

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The period of decreasing daylight between afternoon and night.
• noun The period between sunset or the evening meal and bedtime.
• noun A later period or time.
• noun Chiefly Southern US The time from noon to twilight.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; the decline or fall of the day, or of the sun; the time from sunset till darkness; in common usage, the latter part of the afternoon and the earlier part of the night before bedtime.
• noun Hence The decline or latter part of any state or term of existence: as, the evening of life; the evening of his power.
• noun The time between noon and dark, including afternoon and twilight.
• noun The delivery at evening of a certain portion of grass or corn to a customary tenant.
• Being, or occurring at, or associated with the close of day: as, the evening sacrifice.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the decline of the day, or of the sun.
• noun The latter portion, as of life; the declining period, as of strength or glory.
• noun (Bot.) a genus of iridaceous plants (Hesperantha) from the Cape of Good Hope, with sword-shaped leaves, and sweet-scented flowers which expand in the evening.
• noun (Zoöl.) an American singing bird (Coccothraustes vespertina) having a very large bill. Its color is olivaceous, with the crown, wings, and tail black, and the under tail coverts yellow. So called because it sings in the evening.
• noun See under Primrose.
• noun the bright star of early evening in the western sky, soon passing below the horizon; specifically, the planet Venus; -- called also Vesper and Hesperus. During portions of the year, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are also evening stars. See Morning Star.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb Present participle of even.
• noun The time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark.
• noun 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.
• noun figuratively A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a later concluding time period
• noun the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way
• noun the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)