evenings
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈiːvnɪŋz/
- Hyphenation: eve‧nings
Etymology 1
From evening + -s (adverbial suffix). Compare with Dutch avonds, Low German avends, German abends, all “in the evening, evenings”, which are originally adverbial genitives, however.
Adverb
evenings (not comparable)
- (informal, somewhat dated) In the evening, during the evening.
- 1846 [1845], Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Boston: Anti-Slavery Office:
- He had ordered her not to go out evenings, and warned her that she must never let him catch her in company with a young man, who was paying attention to her belonging to Colonel Lloyd.
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