evening star

English

Etymology

From evening + star. Cf. Old English ǣfensteorra.

Noun

evening star (plural evening stars)

(astronomy, with definite article) The planet Venus as seen in the western sky in the evening.
The evening star is the morning star. (Hesperus is Phosphorus.)
(with indefinite article) Any star seen in the evening, especially the planets Mercury and Jupiter.
An evening primrose (O. biennis).

Oenothera biennis

Synonyms

(planet Venus): Hesperus
(planet Mercury): Hermes

Antonyms

(planet Venus): morning star, Phosphorus
(planet Mercury): morning star, Apollo

Translations

planet Venus seen in the evening

Arabic: نَجْمُ الْمَسَاء‎ m (najmu l-masāʾ)
Bulgarian: вечерница f (večernica)
Chinese: 長庚 (zh) (chánggēng)
Czech: večernice f
Dutch: avondster (nl) f
Esperanto: vesperstelo
Finnish: iltatähti (fi)
French: étoile du soir (fr) f
Galician: estrela da tarde f
German: Abendstern (de) m
Hungarian: esthajnalcsillag (hu)

Italian: stella della sera f, vespero m
Japanese: 宵の明星 (ja) (yoi no myōjō), ゆふづつ (ja) (yufudzutsu) (ancient)
Korean: 개밥바라기 (gaebabbaragi)
Latin: vesperūgō f
Maori: Rangitūahiahi, Meremere, Meremere-tū-ahiahi
Navajo: sǫʼtsoh, sǫʼtsoh łigaii
Old English: æfensteorra m
Portuguese: estrela da tarde f, estrela d'alva (pt) f
Russian: вече́рняя звезда́ f (večérnjaja zvezdá)
Spanish: estrella de la tarde f, lucero de la tarde m
Yiddish: אָוונטשטערן‎ m (ovntshtern)

Oenothera biennis

Czech: pupalka dvouletá f
Dutch: middelste teunisbloem f, nachtkeers f, nachtpitjes pl, nachtkaars (nl) f, leliën-van-een-nacht pl, vierentwintiguursbloem f

Finnish: iltahelokki
Russian: осли́нник двуле́тний m (oslínnik dvulétnij), эноте́ра двуле́тняя f (enotɛ́ra dvulétnjaja)

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