EVENFALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does evenfall mean? 

• EVENFALL (noun)
  The noun EVENFALL has 1 sense:

1. the time of day immediately following sunset

  Familiarity information: EVENFALL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVENFALL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time of day immediately following sunset

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

crepuscle; crepuscule; dusk; evenfall; fall; gloam; gloaming; nightfall; twilight

Context example:

they finished before the fall of night

Hypernyms ("evenfall" is a kind of...):

hour; time of day (clock time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "evenfall"):

night (a shortening of nightfall)

Holonyms ("evenfall" is a part of...):

eve; even; evening; eventide (the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall))