Evening dress

Definition

evening /'i:vnÇŋ/ n ၁။ [C, U] ညခ်မ္း။ ညေန။ I'll come and see you tomorrow evening. ❍ We were at home yesterday evening. ❍ One warm summer evening…/On a warm summer evening… ❍ the long winter evenings ❍ In the evening I usually read. ❍ Let's meet on Sunday evening. ❍ the evening performance. ❍ MORNING ၂။ [C] (ည) ဆည္းဆာပြဲ။ A theatre evening (ie an evening at the theatre) has been arranged. ❍ musical evenings (ie evenings especially for listening to or playing music). ❏ evening class n (သက္ႀကီးမ်ားအတြက္) ညေက်ာင္း။ I'm doing French evening classes this year. See also NIGHT SCHOOL ❏ evening dress n ၁။ [U] ညခ်မ္းပြဲလမ္းဝတ္စံု။ Everyone was in (full) evening dress. ၂။ [C] (ပြဲလမ္းဝတ္) ဂါဝန္ရွည္။ ❏ evening paper n ညေနသတင္းစာ။ I saw the advert in the local evening paper. ❏ evenings adv ( esp US ) ညဥ့္ဦးတိုင္း။ ညဥ့္ဦးပိုင္းတြင္။ He works evenings. ❏ good evening [ IDM ] မဂၤလာညခ်မ္းပါ။ ‘Good evening, sir. ’ ‘Good evening. ’

Examples

1. We spend most evenings reading or listening to music.
2. [on Monday/Tuesday etc evening] : I’ll see you on Monday evening
3. OK?
4. [on Monday/Tuesday etc evening(s)] : We usually go to the theatre on Thursday evenings (=every Thursday evening).
5. [in the evening(s)] : I’m so tired in the evenings
6. all I want to do is sit and watch television.
7. [yesterday/tomorrow evening] : Police say the incident took place at around 9 o’clock yesterday evening.
8. An evening meal/performance/newspaper
9. A musical evening
10. featuring local performers