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eve

1

[ eev ]

noun

  1. (sometimes initial capital letter) the evening or the day before a holiday, church festival, or any date or event:

    Christmas Eve; the eve of an execution.

  2. the period preceding or leading up to any event, crisis, etc.:

    on the eve of the American Revolution.

  3. the evening.


Eve

2

[ eev ]

noun

  1. (in the Bible) the name of the first woman: wife of Adam and progenitor of the human race.
  2. a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “life.”

eve

1

/ iːv /

noun

    1. the evening or day before some special event or festival
    2. ( capital when part of a name )

      New Year's Eve

  1. the period immediately before an event

    on the eve of civil war

  2. an archaic word for evening
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


Eve

2

/ iːv /

noun

  1. Old Testament the first woman; mother of the human race, fashioned by God from the rib of Adam (Genesis 2:18-25)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Eve

  1. In the Book of Genesis , the first woman. ( See Adam and Eve and Creation .)


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Word History and Origins

Origin of eve1

1200–50; Middle English; variant of even 2
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Word History and Origins

Origin of eve1

C13: variant of even ²
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Idioms and Phrases

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Example Sentences

Both have different venues in cities across the country on Christmas Eve (and in some cases, Christmas night, too).

Liu was nearing the 20th anniversary of his arrival in America, having landed from China on Christmas Eve, 1994, at the age of 12.

Throughout Christmas eve and day, the world is monitoring with bated breath.

Many will simply stay away from crowds and stay home this Christmas Eve, which could be a very silent night indeed.

So here, for your Christmas Eve pleasure, are 20 of my favorites, 10 from the ecclesiastical division and 10 secular.

Eve, too, lovely as she is, seems to bear no likelihood of resemblance to Milton's superb mother of mankind.

And when cool silence came again, Hugh begged that the two would have their Christmas Eve dinner with him, at his hotel.

He makes love to her, just because it is the nature of a lusty son of Adam to make love to a pretty daughter of Eve.

If God put a "will" on Adam's back, and the will followed the beckoning finger of Eve, whose fault was that?

Were going to take Patrick down to the pond with us to keep up the fires while were skating, Eve told Laura.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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