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# eventide

«eventide» in Mova's school dictionary: **an old word for evening, the time when the day is ending** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (old use)

### meaning for a pupil

Eventide is an old word for evening, the time when the day is ending. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eventide/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales and old stories, eventide is the quiet time of evening when people rest

### examples

- At eventide the family lay down to sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eventide/#x1)
- The goatherd drove his flock home at eventide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/eventide/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [At eventide behold terror; and before the morning they are not.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.373/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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