eventide

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   evening or the late part of the day around sunset; literary or poetic

   At eventide, long shadows stretched across the quiet fields.

From Middle English eventide, from Old English aefentid, a compound of aefen, 'evening,' + tid, 'time or season.' The first element survives as the poetic noun even, while tide retains its older sense 'time' in compounds such as Yuletide.

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