eve Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun (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. noun the day before
    • he always arrives on the eve of her departure
  3. noun the period immediately before something
    • on the eve of the French Revolution
  4. noun the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)
    even; eventide; evening.
    • he enjoyed the evening light across the lake

WordNet

Eve noun
Etymology
See Even, n.
Definitions
  1. Evening. Poetic
    Winter oft, at eve resumes the breeze. Thomson.
  2. The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event. "On the eve of death." Keble.

Webster 1913