Definition of Evening

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Evening

of Even

The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the decline of the day, or of the sum.

The latter portion, as of life; the declining period, as of strength or glory.

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Evening Quotations

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Mohandas Gandhi

What a nice night for an evening.
Steven Wright

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.
Groucho Marx

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
Groucho Marx

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
Lord Byron

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
William Blake

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Woody Allen

Evening Translations

evening in Danish is aften
evening in Dutch is avond
evening in Finnish is ilta
evening in German is abend, Abend {m}
evening in Hungarian is este
evening in Latin is vesper
evening in Norwegian is kveld
evening in Portuguese is noite

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