Definition of VESPERS

vespers

Meanings

Noun

  • the sixth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office; early evening; now often made a public service on Sundays
  • a planet (usually Venus) seen at sunset in the western sky
  • a late afternoon or evening worship service
  • The sixth of the seven canonical hours, an evening prayer service
  • A massacre
  • plural of vesper

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English vespers, from Old French vespres (French vêpres), from Ecclesiastical Latin vesperae (“vespers”), substantivisation of relational Late Latin vesperus (“evening”), from vesper (“evening”) + -us.
Euphemistic use first as Vèpres éphésiennes (“Ephesian Vespers”), coined in 1890 by historian Théodore Reinach by analogy with the Sicilian Vespers.

Synonyms

evening star, evensong, Hesperus, Vesper, vesper

Scrabble Score: 12

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Words With Friends Score: 14

vespers is a valid Words With Friends word