eventide

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

eventide
    n 1: the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing
         daylight from late afternoon until nightfall); "he enjoyed
         the evening light across the lake" [syn: {evening}, {eve},
         {even}, {eventide}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Eventide \E"ven*tide`\n. [AS. [=ae]fent[imac]d. See {Tide}.]
   The time of evening; evening. [Poetic.] --Spenser.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

18 Moby Thesaurus words for "eventide":
      close of day, cockshut, dimpsy, dusk, eve, even, evening, evensong,
      gloaming, grayness, nightfall, setting sun, shut of day, sundown,
      sunset, the expiring day, twilight, vesper

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