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evening noun The afternoon, the time between the middle of the day, usually marked by the dinner meal, and dusk. [OED 1788; DARE labels this usage "chiefly South, South Midland" in the U.S.]

1780 (in 2007 Dunkerly Kings Mt 27) We came up with him in Craven County, South Carolina, posted on a height called King’s Mountain, about twelve miles north of the Cherokee ford of Broad River, about two o’clock in the evening of October the 7th instant. 1813 Hartsell Journal 124 about tow oclock in the Evning [we] Came to one small Indian Hous. 1862 Martin CW Letters (March 8) this is About three oclock P.M. Saterday eavening. 1910 Weeks Barbourville Word List 457 = afternoon. Used by everybody. 1956 Chapman Folk Retain If you ask him, “Would you like to ride into town this evening?” he will expect you to go sometime between noon and sundown for to him those are the evening hours; after that, it is “night.” The word “afternoon” is practically unknown in the mountain speech. 1973 GSMNP-78:21 At twelve we would arrange our benches and have a spelling bee all Friday evening. 1984 Gibson Remembering 1 We were small so about three o’clock in the evening Mama would send us a snack to the field by one of the children that wasn’t big enough to work much as yet.