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Definition of 'EVE'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) eve
(sometimes cap.) the evening or the day before a holiday, church festival, or any date or event:
Christmas Eve; the eve of an election.

2. eve
the period preceding any event, crisis, etc.:
on the eve of the revolution.

3. eve
the evening.

4. (n.) Eve
the first woman: wife of Adam and progenitor of the human race. Gen. 3:20.

Definition of 'EVE'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) Eve
(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

2. (noun) eve
the day before
"he always arrives on the eve of her departure"

3. (noun) eve
the period immediately before something
"on the eve of the French Revolution"

4. (noun) evening, eve, even, eventide
the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)
"he enjoyed the evening light across the lake"

Definition of 'EVE'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) eve
Christmas Eve/New Year's Eve
the night before Christmas or the New Year

Definition of 'EVE'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) EVE
evening

2. (noun) EVE
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

Translation of 'EVE'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: the day or evening before a festival Christmas Eve; New Year's Eve.
Afrikaans: ou	Arabic: عَشِيَّة، لَيْلَة (العيد)	Bulgarian: навечерие
Brazilian: véspera	Czech: předvečer svátku	German: der Vortag, -abend
Danish: juleaften; -aften	Greek: παραμονή	Spanish: víspera
Estonian: eelõhtu	Farsi: شب پیش از روز عزیز	Finnish: aatto
French: veille	Hebrew: עֶרֶב -	Hindi: पूर्व सन्ध्या
Croatian: noć uoči praznika	Hungarian: (elő)est	Indonesian: sebelum
Icelandic: vaka; aðfangadagur	Italian: vigilia	Japanese: 前夜
Korean: (교회 축제일, 명절날 등의) 전날(밤)	Lithuanian: išvakarės	Latvian: (svētku) priekšvakars
Malay: hari sebelum	Dutch: vooravond	Norwegian: aften (før en høytid)
Polish: wigilia	Persian: شب پیش از روز عزیز	Pashto: ما ښام، هغه ورځ يا شپه چه
Portuguese: véspera	Romanian: ajun	Russian: канун
Slovak: predvečer sviatku	Slovenian: dan/večer (pred praznikom	Serbian: veče uoči
Swedish: helgdagsafton	Thai: วันก่อนวันหยุดหรือวันสำคั	Turkish: arife
Taiwanese: 節日的前夜	Ukrainian: святий вечір	Urdu: کسی کلیسائی تہوار یا اہم
Vietnamese: ngày hoặc đêm trước lễ hộ	Chinese: 节日的前夜
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