Eventide

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  eventide
       n : 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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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