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# evening

«evening» in Mova's school dictionary: **the time at the end of the day, after the afternoon and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (evening, evenings)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The evening is the time at the end of the day, after the afternoon and before night, from about 6 o'clock until bedtime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evening/#m1)

2) An evening can also be an event at that time, like a parents' evening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evening/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

maths: a part of the day; amounts in the morning and evening often add up for the day; time after noon (pm); everyday life: dinner, homework, bath time; school: parents' evening; phrases: «good evening», «this evening», «in the evening»

### examples

- She read 10 pages in the morning and 15 in the evening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evening/#x1)
- The shop closes at 8 in the evening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evening/#x2)
- He runs 2 km every evening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evening/#x3)
- How many in all each day? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evening/#x4)
- Good evening, everyone! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evening/#x5)
- We eat dinner in the evening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evening/#x6)
- There is a parents' evening at school on Thursday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evening/#x7)
- The evening sky turned pink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evening/#x8)
- Toward evening they started for home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evening/#x9)

### note

Marks time; morning plus evening amounts add for the day. Trap: 8 in the evening is 20:00 or 8 pm. «Evening» is not «evening out» (making even).

### In the corpora

- [Foxes hunt chickens, which cannot fly well and sleep deeply at night, so a hen house must be shut every evening.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/212-chickens-eggs-pecking-order-and-living-dinosaurs/12/)
- [On a summer evening in Britain, a tiny shape flits round and round a street lamp.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/315-bats-near-home-pipistrelles-noctules-bat-boxes-and-why-never-to-pick-one-up/0/)
- [Rowing home in the evening sun, the Rat is murmuring poetry to himself.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/28-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh/0/)
- [BY TOAD will be sung in the course of the evening by the. . .](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs/28/)
- [Leave a glass of milk on a sunny windowsill and by evening it smells sour and has lumps in it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/22-milk-cheese-and-yoghurt/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «evening» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/evening/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.