adj · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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US:/ˈvɛspɚtɪn/
US:/ˈvɛspɚtaɪn/
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adj
Meaning 1
Of or related to the evening; that occurs in the evening.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, poetic
Examples
1837, William Evans Burton (editor), Philadelphia in the Dog Days: An Incoherency, Burton's Gentleman's Magazine and American Monthly Review, Volume 1: July—December, page 131, The peripatetics issue forth to indulge in the usual vespertine locomotion; and stroll gently down the aristocratic Chesnut and up the sedate and solid-seeming Mulberry, or vice versa.
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adj
Meaning 2
That sets after the sun.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
