Eve
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(in the Bible) the name of the first woman: wife of Adam and progenitor of the human race.
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a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “life.”
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(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.
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the period preceding or leading up to any event, crisis, etc..
on the eve of the American Revolution.
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the evening.
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the evening or day before some special event or festival
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( capital when part of a name )
New Year's Eve
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the period immediately before an event
on the eve of civil war
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an archaic word for evening
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Etymology
Origin of eve
1200–50; Middle English; variant of even 2
Example Sentences
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On the eve of the match Australia skipper Steve Smith said the pitch was "quite furry, quite green" and predicted movement off the seam.
From BBC
Regragui suggested on the eve of the tournament's opening game against Comoros that Hakimi was fit, but in the end the Morocco captain played no part in Sunday's 2-0 win in Rabat.
From Barron's
Perhaps the year’s most consequential development came on the eve of the NeurIPS conference, when Google released a version of its Gemini large language model that soared up the industry’s closely watched leaderboards.
On the eve of the 1976 election, President Gerald Ford wanted to hold a motorcade parade in Grand Rapids, where he grew up.
On the eve of the Civil War, the Columbian Register lamented the growing likelihood of “the stars of our political firmament” being “torn from their orbits, and plunging madly about, or tilting one the other.”
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