evening
noun/ˈiːvnɪŋ/
Слово англійською: evening
Переклад evening українською: вечір
Детальний опис
- [countable, uncountable] the part of the day between the afternoon and the time you go to bed
- Remember to call me this evening.
- We haven't spoken to him since yesterday evening.
- I'll see you tomorrow evening.
- Come over on Thursday evening.
- in the evening What do you usually do in the evening?
- Mosquitoes usually bite in the early evening.
- for the evening She's going to her sister's for the evening.
- on the evening of on the evening of May 15
- He hardly spoke throughout the evening.
- We spent many enjoyable summer evenings together.
- I found it in the pocket of the jacket I had been wearing the previous evening.
- The evening meal is served at 7 p.m.
- She watched the evening news at 6 p.m. as usual.
- As the evening wore on, Sam became more and more unhappy.
- Jim's comedy routine was the highlight of the evening's entertainment.
- [countable] an event of a particular type happening in the evening
- a musical evening at school (= when music is performed)
- the school parents' evening (= when parents are invited to talk to teachers about their children's progress)
Word OriginOld English ǣfnung ‘dusk falling, the time around sunset’, from ǣfnian ‘approach evening’, from ǣfen, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch avont and German Abend.