Definition

1. Noun:
   • Evening market: A market that takes place in the late afternoon or early evening, often characterized by a specific atmosphere as vendors sell their remaining goods before closing.
   • The atmosphere of a market at its closing time: The unique, often bustling and slightly hurried ambiance of a market as it winds down for the day.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Chúng tôi đi mua rau ở chợ chiều. (We went to buy vegetables at the evening market.)
  • Không khí chợ chiều thật nhộn nhịp. (The atmosphere of the market at closing time is very lively.)
  • Cảnh chợ chiều gợi lên một nỗi buồn man mác. (The scene of the evening market evokes a faint sense of melancholy.)

Advanced Usage

• "Cảnh chợ chiều": The scene of an evening market; often used metaphorically in literature and poetry to describe the late stage or decline of something, such as life or an era.
  • Thơ ông ấy thường ví cuộc đời như cảnh chợ chiều. (His poetry often compares life to the scene of an evening market.)

Variants and Related Words

• Chợ sáng (n): Morning market.
• Chợ đêm (n): Night market.
• Chợ tàn (n): A market that is ending or has ended; a dispersed market. This term is closer in metaphorical meaning to "chợ chiều" when describing decline.

Synonyms

• Chợ tàn (n): Literally "ending/dispersed market"; can be used similarly in a metaphorical sense.
• Buổi chợ cuối ngày (n): The last market session of the day.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• "Buồn như chợ chiều": As sad as an evening market; an idiom describing a deeply melancholic or desolate mood, akin to the feeling when a bustling market empties out.
  • Sau khi mọi người ra về, căn phòng trống trải, buồn như chợ chiều. (After everyone left, the room was empty and as sad as an evening market.)

1. Market at its closing
   • không khí chợ chiều
     the atmosphere of a market at its closing