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evenings

[eev-ningz]

adverb

  1. in or during the evening even evening regularly.

    She worked days and studied evenings.



evenings

/ ˈiːvnɪŋz /

adverb

  1. informal,  in the evening, esp regularly

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of evenings1

First recorded in 1865–80
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Example Sentences

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I live in a small town, and I’ve been here 30 years, and most of the time there’s not much to do in the evenings.

Meanwhile the city's once-bustling seafront, where families gathered on summer evenings, has become a corridor of tents and broken concrete, the site of a mass migration through the ruins.

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Saturday evenings were spent going into the nearest town to buy provisions and a few hours of entertainment — movies, dancing, drinking.

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He blew through opponents so fast that he had to apologize to fans for cutting their evenings short.

Many years later, after marrying, having kids and working as a pharmaceutical sales rep, he thought back to his mother’s advice, and spent evenings writing a novel he named “Winter for Two.”

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