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Evening

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evenounThe day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.
eventidenoun(archaic, poetic, literary) Evening.

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eventidenoun(archaic, poetic, literary) Evening.
evenounThe day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.
morningnounThe early part of the day, especially from midnight to noon.
afternoonnounThe part of the day from noon or lunchtime until sunset, evening, or suppertime or 6pm.
nightfallnounThe close of the day; the coming of night.
midnightnounTwelve o'clock at night exactly.
noonnounThe time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.
nighttimenounThe hours of darkness between sunset and sunrise; the night.
tonightnounThe nighttime of the current day or date; this night.
nightnoun(countable) The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.
sundownnoun(now chiefly US) Sunset.
sunsetnounThe moment each evening when the sun disappears below the western horizon.
overnightnounAn item delivered or completed overnight.
dusknounThe time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period.
goodnightnounAn instance of saying “good night”; a nighttime farewell.
night-timenounAlternative form of nighttime. [The hours of darkness between sunset and sunrise; the night.]
daynounA period of time equal or almost equal to a full day-night cycle, being 24 hours long.
hournoun(time) A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).
twilightnounThe soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
todaynounThe current day or date.

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