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 →

2) An evening can also be an event at that time, like a parents' evening. tree →

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 →
• The shop closes at 8 in the evening. tree →
• He runs 2 km every evening. tree →
• How many in all each day? tree →
• Good evening, everyone! tree →
• We eat dinner in the evening. tree →
• There is a parents' evening at school on Thursday. tree →
• The evening sky turned pink. tree →
• Toward evening they started for home. tree →

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.
• On a summer evening in Britain, a tiny shape flits round and round a street lamp.
• Rowing home in the evening sun, the Rat is murmuring poetry to himself.
• BY TOAD will be sung in the course of the evening by the. . .
• Leave a glass of milk on a sunny windowsill and by evening it smells sour and has lumps in it.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «evening» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.