eve

1. n. Evening. Source: opted

2. n. The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event. Source: opted

3. n. the day before Source: wordnet

4. n. the period immediately before something Source: wordnet

5. n. the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) Source: wordnet

6. 1. Evening. [Poetic] Winter oft, at eve resumes the breeze. Thomson. 2. The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event. "On the eve of death." Keble. Eve churr (Zoöl), the European goatsucker or nightjar; -- called also night churr, and churr owl. Source: webster

7. n:100 n. (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; God created Eve from Adam's rib and placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden n. the day before n. the period immediately before something Source: ecdict

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