evenfall

dusk, twilight

Noun

  1. dusk, twilight
    • The wind that blows across them calls Ever at dawns and evenfalls, And I am suddenly forlorn. Across the pastures and ripe corn I see the mountains in my dreams. - 1905, Katharine Tynan, “The Exile”, in Innocencies,...
    • Arriving at Brinkley in the quiet evenfall and putting the old machine away in the garage, I noticed that Aunt Dahlia's car was there and gathered from this that the aged relative was around and about once more. - 1960,...

Origin

From even (“evening”) + fall. Compare nightfall.

Forms

evenfalls

Synonyms

crepusculum mirkning nightfall