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- DictionaryEve/ēv/
noun
- 1. the day or period of time immediately before an event or occasion: "on the eve of her departure he gave her a little parcel"
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3 days ago · 4 meanings: 1. a. the evening or day before some special event or festival b. (capital when part of a name) 2. the period.... Click for more definitions.
eve meaning: 1. the day or night before Christmas Day/New Year's Day 2. the time just before something important…. Learn more.
Definition of eve noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
- English
- Aiwoo
- Ewe
- Finnish
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Old French
- Zazaki
Etymology
From a variant of the Middle English noun even (itself from Old English ǣfen), with a pre-1200 loss of the terminal '-n', which was mistaken for an inflection. See also the now archaic or poetic even (“evening”), from the same source.
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /iːv/ 2. Rhymes: -iːv 3. Homophones: eave, Eve
Noun
eve (plural eves) 1. The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve. 2. (archaic, poetic) Evening, night. 2.1. Mid-19th century, John Clare, Autumn: 2.1.1. I love to see the shaking twig / Dance till the shut of eve 2.2. 1896, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, chapter XXVII, in A Shropshire Lad, lines 42–43: 2.2.1. And has she tired of weeping / As she lies down at eve. 2.3. 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page...
Numeral
eve 1. three
References
1. Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
Etymology
Slang, from ekstaasi (folk-etymologically connected with the nickname Eve, with which it is unrelated)
Pronunciation
1. IPA(key): /ˈeʋe/, [ˈe̞ʋe̞] 2. Rhymes: -eʋe 3. Syllabification(key): e‧ve
Noun
eve (slang) 1. ecstasy (drug)
Verb
eve (present tense ever, past tense eva or evet, past participle eva or evet) 1. (reflexive) to wait, doubt, drag one's feet
References
1. “eve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Pronunciation
1. Homophone: æve
Etymology 1
From Old Norse efa, ifa. Compare also with earlier ivast.
Etymology 2
Related to eva (Etymology 2) and ev.
Etymology
Latin aqua.
Noun
eve f (oblique plural eves, nominative singular eve, nominative plural eves) 1. Alternative form of iaue; water
EVE definition: 1. the day or night before Christmas Day/New Year's Day 2. the time just before something important…. Learn more.
Eve definition, the evening or the day before a holiday, church festival, or any date or event: Christmas Eve; the eve of an execution. See more.
Eve definition: The evening or day preceding a special day, such as a holiday.
