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Word entry · 7 letters

evening

Best crossword clue

"Dusk time"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈiːv.nɪŋ/Part of speech nounSorted eeginnvStarts with EEnds with G2 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)

Word origin

From Middle English evening, evenyng, from Old English ǣfnung, from ǣfnian (“to become evening”), from ǣfen (“eve”) (from Proto-West Germanic *ābanþ, from Proto-Germanic *ēbanþs), corresponding to even + -ing.

Used in a sentence

  • Toward evening, there was heavy rain.
  • I met my wife on a summer's evening in 1999.
  • It was the evening of the Roman Empire.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Dusk time7 letters
02Time after sunset7 letters

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