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mid-evening

mid-evening

3.5
Happening in the middle of the evening
  • adjective
translation icon : mediados de la noche
  • The concert started in the mid-evening, just as the sun was setting.

Examples

  • The party starts mid-evening to accommodate everyone.

  • A mid-evening walk helped her relax before going to bed.

  • They scheduled the meeting for mid-evening so everyone could attend after dinner.

  • We usually have dinner at mid-evening.

  • They scheduled the meeting for mid-evening so everyone could attend after dinner.

  • The concert started in the mid-evening, just as the sun was setting.

  • A mid-evening walk helped her relax before going to bed.

Surface Forms

mid-evening positive

Morphology

mid-evening = evening (transparent) = mid + evening

The productive prefix 'mid-' meaning 'middle' combines straightforwardly with 'evening', so the sense is directly inferable.

Etymology

Mid-evening is made of mid- meaning 'middle' and evening meaning 'the time after afternoon'. Think of familiar words like midday or midnight that use mid- to mean 'middle', so mid-evening means happening around the middle of the evening.