evening

Other forms of evening

plural

evenings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about evening

What does evening mean?

evening means "the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in evening?

evening has 2 syllables: eve-ning. The stress falls on "eve". In IPA it is /ˈivnɪŋ/.

What is another word for evening?

Close synonyms include eve, even, eventide. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is evening a common word?

evening is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.