About The Word Eve
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Eve
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What's The Definition Of Eve?
[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 Even in the Garden of Eden
[n] the day before; "he always arrives on the eve of her departure" [n] the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall); "he enjoyed the evening light across the lake" [n] the period immediately before something; "on the eve of the French Revolution" Synonyms | Synonyms for Eve: evening | eventide Related Terms | Find terms related to Eve: See Also | adult female | day | daylight | daytime | dusk | evenfall | fall | gloaming | guest night | mean solar day | nightfall | period | period of time | solar day | sundown | sunset | time period | twenty-four hours | twilight | woman Eve In Webster's Dictionary \Eve\, n. [See {Even}, n.]
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} (Zo["o]l), the European goatsucker or nightjar;
-- called also {night churr}, and {churr owl}.
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