THIS EVENING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does this evening mean? 

• THIS EVENING (adverb)
  The adverb THIS EVENING has 1 sense:

1. during the night of the present day

  Familiarity information: THIS EVENING used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THIS EVENING (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

During the night of the present day

Synonyms:

this evening; this night; tonight

Context example:

drop by tonight

 Context examples 

"You will see her this evening," answered Mrs. Fairfax.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Pray be so good as to mention to the other gentlemen that we hope to see your whole party this evening.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Well, I shall see how they behave to me this evening; we shall meet them at the rooms.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Upon my honour, I never met with so many pleasant girls in my life as I have this evening; and there are several of them you see uncommonly pretty.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

This evening we are going to see Fechter, which will be an appropriate end to the happiest day of my life.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Oh, if that's all, Master Copperfield, said Uriah, and it really isn't our umbleness that prevents you, will you come this evening?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And now, gentlemen, I have one or two little interviews this evening, and it is a long drive to Hampstead.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Marianne, I dare say, will not leave her room again this evening.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I ran across a sample of it on my way here this evening.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“He wore his running boots this evening, and you can see the nails. But what’s this? Some one else has been here.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)