vespers.

An evening service of prayer in Christian liturgical traditions.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• attend vespers
• evening vespers
• bells for vespers

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Bells called the community to vespers.

They entered the chapel before vespers began.

After vespers, the courtyard emptied.

Usage notes

Primary category: gothic. Forms: Plural-form noun; generally takes plural agreement. No separate canonical vesper entry here. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.