What is a synonym for "eventide"?

Common synonyms include: evening, eve, even, evening, close of day, cockshut.

How do you pronounce "eventide"?

Pronounced //ˈiːvənˌtaɪd//.

//ˈiːvənˌtaɪd// noun

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Noun

1
Evening. archaic, countable, literary, poetic, uncountable
"The mist rises from the lake at eventide."
2
the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) wordnet

"The mist rises from the lake at eventide."

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

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