evetide means evening. It carries an Arena rating of 1656, earned across 13 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, evetide ranks #75 of 312 for Most Elegant Words, #139 of 314 for Most Ingenious Words, #938 of 12,835 for Most Beautiful Words, #3,863 of 12,835 for Most Sublime Words.
Why “evetide” is a great word
The quiet hour between afternoon and night, a rare poetic variant of eventide, from the Middle English 'eve' (the evening or the day before a festival) and 'tide' (time, season). Unlike 'eventide,' its more common and standard parent, or 'twilight,' which denotes the dim, lingering light, evetide refers to the gentle substance of the evening hour itself. It is the cooling of the stone path after the sun has gone, the soft clatter of dishes cleared from a supper table, and the settling quiet of a house as lamps are lit—a word not for the fading of the light, but for the quietude that replaces it.
Etymology
A variant of eventide; equivalent to eve + tide.
noun
- evening“The feeble folk at home had grown full-used / To 'dug-outs', 'snipers', 'Huns', from the war-adept / In the mornings heard, and at eventides perused; / To day-dreamt men in millions, when they mused-- / to nightmare-men in millions when they slept.”
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