The start of an evening in the city

22.03.2007

Informally, the evening is the period in which the daylight is decreasing, between the late afternoon and night. Though the term is subjective, evening is typically understood to begin at twilight, sunset, the close of the standard business day, or 6:00 pm and extend until night -- typically astronomical sunset, 9 pm, or dark.

In the rural American South, "evening" ["e'enin"] is often used to describe the entire late afternoon, especially when the main meal of the day, dinner, is taken in the early afternoon; then "e'enin" is anytime after dinner.

Euphemistically the evening is also the latter part of a person's life.

Vespre

El vespre és la part del dia que va des de la tarda fins a la nit. Tradicionalment s'ha anomenat vespre al període de temps que transcorre entre l'ocàs del Sol i l'acció de sopar. En determinades zones s'anomena capvespre o poqueta nit.

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