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evening star

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evening star
n.
A planet, especially Venus or Mercury, that is prominent in the west shortly after sunset.
evening star
n
(Astronomy & Space / Celestial Objects) a planet, usually Venus, seen just after sunset during the time that the planet is east of the sun Compare morning star
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Noun1.evening starevening star - a planet (usually Venus) seen at sunset in the western sky
Hesperus, Vesper
Translations
evening star n → stella della sera
evening star n → stella della sera


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The road from the north curved a little to the east just there, and the road from the west swung out a little to the south; so that the grave, with its tall red grass that was never mowed, was like a little island; and at twilight, under a new moon or the clear evening star, the dusty roads used to look like soft grey rivers flowing past it.
My Antonia by Cather, Willa View in context
This disquieting apparition was stretching out its arms toward the west, as if in supplication for the evening star, which, certainly, was an alluring object, though obviously out of reach.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faery lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire.
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