mid-evening
2.8
The time around the middle of the evening
- noun
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mediados de la noche
- The park is particularly beautiful at mid-evening, just when the sun begins to set.
Examples
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During mid-evening, the streets are filled with people heading out for a night of entertainment.
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We usually have dinner around mid-evening, so we can enjoy some family time afterwards.
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So this is what it does from like mid to late morning all the way till, I don't know, mid evening and that starts to get into a little bit more shade.
How Long
Surface Forms
mid-evening singular
mid-evenings plural
Morphology
Etymology
Mid-evening combines mid- ('middle') and evening ('the time after afternoon') and so names a time around the middle of the evening. A helpful way to remember it is to think of the 'halfway' point of the evening, between early and late evening.