Eve

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

Eve, n. [See Even, n.].

•  Evening.  [1913 Webster]

  "Winter oft, at eve resumes the breeze."  [1913 Webster]
•  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 churr (Zoöl), the European goatsucker or nightjar; -- called also night churr, and churr owl.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

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)

ROGET THESAURUS

Eve

Evening

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.