EVENTIDE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eventide mean? 

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

1. the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVENTIDE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

eve; even; evening; eventide

Context example:

he enjoyed the evening light across the lake

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

day; daylight; daytime (the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside)

Meronyms (parts of "eventide"):

sundown; sunset (the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon)

crepuscle; crepuscule; dusk; evenfall; fall; gloam; gloaming; nightfall; twilight (the time of day immediately following sunset)

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

guest night (an evening when members of a club or college can bring their friends as guests)

 Context examples 

So she thanked the sun, and went on her way till eventide; and when the moon arose, she cried unto it, and said, Thou shinest through the night, over field and grove—hast thou nowhere seen my white dove?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Having brought my eventide musings to this point, I rose, went to my door, and looked at the sunset of the harvest-day, and at the quiet fields before my cottage, which, with the school, was distant half a mile from the village.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But no—eventide is as pleasant to him as to me, and this antique garden as attractive; and he strolls on, now lifting the gooseberry-tree branches to look at the fruit, large as plums, with which they are laden; now taking a ripe cherry from the wall; now stooping towards a knot of flowers, either to inhale their fragrance or to admire the dew-beads on their petals.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I cannot tell what sentiment haunted the quite solitary churchyard, with its inscribed headstone; its gate, its two trees, its low horizon, girdled by a broken wall, and its newly-risen crescent, attesting the hour of eventide.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)