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Eventide

//ˈiːvənˌtaɪd// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Evening. archaic, countable, literary, poetic, uncountable

    "The mist rises from the lake at eventide."

  2. 2
    the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English eventyde, from Old English ǣfentīd, derived from ǣfen (“evening”) + tīd (“time”). By surface analysis, even + -tide.

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