eventide

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: e=ven=tide

CIDE DICTIONARY

eventide, n. [AS. \'d6fentīd. See Tide.].

 The time of evening; evening.  Spenser.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

eventide, n. archaic or poet. = EVENING.

Idiom

eventide home a home for the elderly, orig. one run by the Salvation Army.

Etymology

OE {aelig}fentid (as EVEN(2), TIDE)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

eventide

Evening

N evening, eve, decline of day, fall of day, close of day, candlelight, candlelighting, eventide, nightfall, curfew, dusk, twilight, eleventh hour, sunset, sundown, going down of the sun, cock-shut, dewy eve, gloaming, bedtime, afternoon, postmeridian, p, m, autumn, fall, fall of the leaf, autumnal equinox, Indian summer, St. Luke's summer, St. Martin's summer, midnight, dead of night, witching hour, witching hour of night, witching time of night, winter, killing time, vespertine, autumnal, nocturnal, midnight, the outpost of advancing day, sable-vested Night, this gorgeous arch with golden worlds inlay'd.