Meanings
plural evenfalls
- countablepoeticuncountabledusk, twilight
The wind that blows across them calls Ever at dawns and evenfalls, And I am suddenly forlorn. Across the pastures and ripe corn I see the mountains in my dreams.
1905, Katharine Tynan, “The Exile”, in Innocencies, London: A. H. Bullen, page 151 more example
Arriving at Brinkley in the quiet evenfall and putting the old machine away in the garage, I noticed that Aunt Dahlia's car was there and gathered from this that the aged relative was around and about once more.
1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLCSynonyms: crepusculum, mirkning, nightfall
Synonyms & antonyms
noundusk, twilight
More synonyms by meaning
nounthe time of day immediately following sunset
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From even (“evening”) + fall. Compare nightfall.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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