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EVENTIDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)
Example:
he enjoyed the evening light across the lake
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("eventide" is a kind of...):
day; daylight; daytime (the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside)
Meronyms (parts of "eventide"):
sundown; sunset (the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon)
crepuscle; crepuscule; dusk; evenfall; fall; gloam; gloaming; nightfall; twilight (the time of day immediately following sunset)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eventide"):
guest night (an evening when members of a club or college can bring their friends as guests)