Evening

Evening

Evening in its primary meaning is the period of the day between afternoon and night. Though the term is subjective, evening is typically understood to begin just before dusk, when temperatures begin to fall, and last until just after nightfall, when complete darkness has been reached.

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Famous quotes containing the word evening:

    One evening I sat Beauty on my knees—And I found her bitter—And I reviled her.
    Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891)

    In the right stage of the weather a pond fires its evening gun with great regularity.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Every other evening around six o’clock he left home and dying dawn saw him hustling home around the lake where the challenging sun flung a flaming sword from east to west across the trembling water.
    Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)