this evening

1. 1.

   during the night of the present day

   “drop by tonight”

   Synonymstonightthis night

Questions about this evening

What does this evening mean?

this evening means "during the night of the present day".

What is another word for this evening?

Close synonyms include tonight, this night. 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 this evening a common word?

this evening 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.