evensong

1. 1.

   the sixth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office; early evening; now often made a public service on Sundays

   Synonymsvespers

   Broadercanonical hour
2. 2.

   (Anglican Church) a daily evening service with prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer

   SynonymsEvening Prayer

   Broaderprayer

   Anglican Church

Other forms of evensong

plural

evensongs·

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 evensong

What does evensong mean?

evensong means "the sixth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office; early evening; now often made a public service on Sundays". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in evensong?

evensong has 3 syllables: e-ven-song. The stress falls on "e".

What is another word for evensong?

Close synonyms include vespers, Evening Prayer. 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 evensong a common word?

evensong is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.