evening [midnight.]

Roget category 126

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.6. Time
›› 1.6.2. Relative time

#126. Evening [Midnight.]

noun

evening, eve — decline of day, fall of day, close of day — candlelight, candlelighting^† — eventide, nightfall, curfew, dusk, twilight, eleventh hour — sunset, sundown — going down of the sun, cock-shut, dewy eve, gloaming, bedtime.
afternoon, postmeridian, p.
m. autumn, fall, fall of the leaf — autumnal equinox — Indian summer, St.
Luke's summer, St.
Martin's summer. midnight — dead of night, witching hour, witching hour of night, witching time of night — winter — killing time.

adjective

vespertine, autumnal, nocturnal.

phrase

midnight, the outpost of advancing day" [Longfellow]; sable-vested Night" [Milton]; this gorgeous arch with golden worlds inlay'd" [Young].

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