Evening

1. The time of day between dusk and night when it gets dark. The lights come on in the evening.
2. (figuratively) A concluding time period; a point of time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something. She was in the evening of her life. It was the evening of the Roman Empire.
3. The period between sunset or the last meal of the day and bedtime. We spent a quiet evening at home.