dictionary definitions for "eve"


From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  Eve
      n 1: (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: the day before; "he always arrives on the eve of her
         departure"
      3: the period immediately before something; "on the eve of the
         French Revolution"
      4: the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight
         from late afternoon until nightfall); "he enjoyed the evening
         light across the lake" [syn: evening, eve, even,
         eventide]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Eve \Eve\ ([=e]v), n. [See Even, n.]
     1. Evening. [Poetic]
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              Winter oft, at eve resumes the breeze. --Thomson.
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     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. "On
        the eve of death." --Keble.
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     Eve churr (Zo["o]l.), the European goatsucker or nightjar;
        -- called also night churr, and churr owl.
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008) [foldoc]:

  Extensible VAX Editor
  EVE
  
     <text, tool> (EVE) A DEC product implemented using DEC's
     Text Processing Utility (TPU).
  
     [Details?]
  
     (2000-05-08)
  


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