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evening star
noun
- a bright planet seen in the western sky at or soon after sunset, especially Venus.
- any planet that rises before midnight.
evening star
noun
- a planet, usually Venus, seen just after sunset during the time that the planet is east of the sun Compare morning star
Word History and Origins
Origin of evening star1
Example Sentences
The museum wants to establish O’Keeffe’s modernist bona fides by defining her penchant for repeating images — landscapes, flowers, West Texas canyons, portraits, female nudes, evening stars — as a “serial practice.”
At greatest western elongation, it appears to be a morning star, rising well before the sun does, and at greatest eastern elongation, it’s an evening star, setting late.
He said he returned to a “life of sin,” until he was intoxicated at a church and remembered seeing a light from an evening star.
Eager sky watchers are turning to the heavens as Comet NEOWISE, one of the brightest comets in a generation, starts climbing ever higher among the evening stars.
Whether it’s a stray bill, an uncommon silver coin or a common copper penny, they’re all good for a wish — like an evening star or a new moon.
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