1. eve(n = noun.person) Array - (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; Array
is a kind of adult female, woman
2. eve(n = noun.time) Array - the day before; "he always arrives on the eve of her departure"
is a kind of 24-hour interval, day, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours
3. eve(n = noun.time) Array - the period immediately before something; "on the eve of the French Revolution"
is a kind of period, period of time, time period
4. eve(n = noun.time) even, evening, 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"
is a kind of day, daylight, daytime
has parts: sundown, sunset, crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight
has particulars: guest night
1. Evening. [1913 Webster]
"Winter oft, at eve resumes the breeze." [1913 Webster]
2. The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset, not at midnight; as, Christmas eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event. Keble. [1913 Webster]
eve, n.
1 the evening or day before a church festival or any date or event (Christmas Eve; the eve of the funeral).
2 the time just before anything (the eve of the election).
3 archaic evening.
Etymology:
ME, = EVEN(2)
N evening, eve, decline of day, fall of day, close of day, candlelight, candlelighting, eventide, nightfall, curfew, dusk, twilight, eleventh hour, sunset, sundown, going down of the sun, cock-shut, dewy eve, gloaming, bedtime, afternoon, postmeridian, p, m, autumn, fall, fall of the leaf, autumnal equinox, Indian summer, St. Luke's summer, St. Martin's summer, midnight, dead of night, witching hour, witching hour of night, witching time of night, winter, killing time, vespertine, autumnal, nocturnal, midnight, the outpost of advancing day, sable-vested Night, this gorgeous arch with golden worlds inlay'd.
allhallow eve, allhallows eve, christmas eve, midsummer eve, new year's eve, saint agnes's eve, st john's eve