evening

fe’l verb

1. To make flat and level. We need to even this playing field; the west goal is too low.
2. To be equal. Thrice nine evens twenty seven.
3. To place in an equal state, as to obligation, or in a state in which nothing is due on either side; to balance, as accounts; to make quits. We need to even the score.
4. To equal.

ot noun

1. A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something. It was the evening of the Roman Empire.
2. The time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark.
3. The time of the day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight (compare afternoon); the period after the end of regular office working hours.
4. A party or gathering held in the evening.