eventide(n = noun.time) eve, even, evening - the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall); "he enjoyed the evening light across the lake"
is a kind of day, daylight, daytime
has parts: sundown, sunset, crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight
has particulars: guest night
The time of evening; evening. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
eventide, n. archaic or poet. = EVENING.
Idiom:
eventide home a home for the elderly, orig. one run by the Salvation Army.
Etymology:
OE {aelig}fentid (as EVEN(2), TIDE)
N evening, eve, decline of day, fall of day, close of day, candlelight, candlelighting, eventide, nightfall, curfew, dusk, twilight, eleventh hour, sunset, sundown, going down of the sun, cock-shut, dewy eve, gloaming, bedtime, afternoon, postmeridian, p, m, autumn, fall, fall of the leaf, autumnal equinox, Indian summer, St. Luke's summer, St. Martin's summer, midnight, dead of night, witching hour, witching hour of night, witching time of night, winter, killing time, vespertine, autumnal, nocturnal, midnight, the outpost of advancing day, sable-vested Night, this gorgeous arch with golden worlds inlay'd.