good evening
Salutation at dusk
Good evening is a greeting used when meeting or parting from someone in the evening hours, roughly from dusk until bedtime.
It's more formal than hey or hi, often heard in professional settings or from service staff: Good evening, how may I help you?
The phrase can also serve as a farewell, though goodnight is more common when parting.
- helloCommon spoken greeting
- greetingsExpressions upon meeting
- salutationsFormal words of welcome
- how do you doFormal spoken greeting
- welcomeHospitable greeting offered
buenas noches · hospitality · politeness · twilight · namaste · soirée · hi · courtesy · moonrise · nightfall · dusk · bonjour · cordiality · civility · aloha · tuxedo · gown · cocktails
- Pleasantriesplease, thank you, thanks, sorry, excuse me
- courtesiesplease, thank you, thanks, sorry, excuse me
- greetingshi, hello, hey, hola, aloha
- Salutationsgreetings, hello, welcome, salutations, how do you do
- Old Greetingsfare thee well, hail, well met, how now, what ho
- phone greetingshello, hi, hey, this is, speaking
good eveninggood morning
Daytime greeting phrase
good afternoon · good day · top of the morning · good night · rise and shine
good eveninggood night
Parting phrase at evening
goodnight · goodbye · farewell · see you later · take care
good, evening, goods, goodness, goodwill, goodly, Good Friday