good evening

noun

a conventional expression used at meeting or parting in the evening.

Origin:
1860–65

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World English Dictionary

good evening

—*sentence substitute*
	a conventional expression of greeting or farewell used in the evening

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Good evening is always a great word to know.

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the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Idioms & Phrases

good evening

see under good day.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Example sentences

Good evening, and thank you for inviting me to speak to you.

All things equal, the pizza magnate had a pretty good evening.

Then he wishes us all a good sleep and a good evening.

The soldier wishes them a good evening, turns around, and leaves the barrack.

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good day

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"I'll come up the steps to the house and the gardener will be clipping away at the hedges and he'll say, "Good evening, Mr. Younger." And I'll say, "Hello, Jefferson, how are you this evening?" And I'll go inside and Ruth will come downstairs and meet me at the door and we'll kiss each other and she'll take my arm and we'll go up to your room to see you sitting on the floor with the catalogues of all the great schools in America around you.... All the great schools in the world! And—and I'll say, all right son—it's your seventeenth birthday, what is it you've decided?... Just tell me, what it is you want to be—and you'll be it.... Whatever you want to be—Yessir! You just name it, so ... and I hand you the world!"

-Lorraine Hansberry

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