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for eventide
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Eventide \E"ven*tide`\n. [AS. [=ae]fent[imac]d. See Tide.]
The time of evening; evening. [Poetic.] --Spenser.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
eventide
n 1: the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing
daylight from late afternoon until nightfall); "he enjoyed
the evening light across the lake" [syn: evening, eve,
even, eventide]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
18 Moby Thesaurus words for "eventide":
close of day, cockshut, dimpsy, dusk, eve, even, evening, evensong,
gloaming, grayness, nightfall, setting sun, shut of day, sundown,
sunset, the expiring day, twilight, vesper
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