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eve
1[ eev ]
noun
- (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.
- the period preceding or leading up to any event, crisis, etc.:
on the eve of the American Revolution.
- the evening.
Eve
2[ eev ]
noun
- (in the Bible) the name of the first woman: wife of Adam and progenitor of the human race.
- a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “life.”
eve
1/ ː /
noun
- the evening or day before some special event or festival
- ( capital when part of a name )
New Year's Eve
- the period immediately before an event
on the eve of civil war
- an archaic word for evening
Eve
2/ ː /
noun
- Old Testament the first woman; mother of the human race, fashioned by God from the rib of Adam (Genesis 2:18-25)
Eve
Word History and Origins
Origin of eve1
Idioms and Phrases
see on the eve of .Example Sentences
The attack came on the eve of the Walpurgis spring festival, when large crowds are expected to descend on the streets of Uppsala, a university town north of Stockholm.
The incident happened on the eve of the Walpurgis spring festival, which brings large crowds onto the streets of Uppsala, which is located north of the capital Stockholm, and known for its university.
First lady Melania Trump also launched a cryptocurrency on the eve of the inauguration.
It was the eve of the 1956 presidential election fought between Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson.
News of the attacks comes on the eve of the second anniversary of the civil war between the RSF and the army.
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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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