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Webster 1913 Edition
Eve
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;
“On the eve of death.” as, Christmas
; also, the period immediately preceding some important event. eve
is the evening before ChristmasKeble.
Eve churr
(Zoöl.)
, the European goatsucker or nightjar; – called also
night churr
, and churr owl
.Webster 1828 Edition
Eve
EVE
,Noun.
it is rendered Euan or Evan. The reason of this variation is not obvious, as the Hebrew is the same in both passages. In Russ. Eve is Evva. In the Chickasaw language of America, a wife is called awah, says Adair.
Definition 2024
Eve
Eve
English
Proper noun
Eve
- (Abrahamic religions) The first woman and mother of the human race; Adam's wife.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Genesis 3:20:
- And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
- 1904, Mark Twain, Extracts from Adam's Diary:
- After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Genesis 3:20:
- An unspecified primordial woman, from whom many or all people are descended.
- The Seven Daughters of Eve; mitochondrial Eve
- A female given name.
- 1970, L.P.Hartley, My Sister's Keeper, page 113:
- "You were always a cynic," said Edith tolerantly. "I'm sure that Eve will want to have a baby - isn't that why we called her Eve?"
- "Of course not," said Herbert, as if the baby-cult had long been irritating him. "We called her Eve, or Evelyn, after your grandmother, who was going to leave, and did leave us some money."
- 1970, L.P.Hartley, My Sister's Keeper, page 113:
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Translations
the first woman
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given name
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Etymology 2
A pun on eavesdropper.
Proper noun
Eve
- (cryptography) A conventional name for an agent attempting to intercept a message sent by Alice that is intended for Bob.
Anagrams
Swedish
Etymology 1
Short form of Evert and Evald, also a masculine form of Eva. First recorded as a Swedish given name in 1904.
Proper noun
Eve
- A male given name.
Etymology 2
Variant of Eva and short form of Evelina.
Proper noun
Eve
- A female given name.
eve
eve
English
Noun
eve (plural eves)
- The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.
- Evening, night.
- Mid-19th cent., John Clare, Autumn:
- I love to see the shaking twig
- Dance till the shut of eve
- Mid-19th cent., John Clare, Autumn:
Related terms
Translations
day or night before
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Verb
eve (third-person singular simple present eves, present participle eving, simple past and past participle eved)
Quotations
- For usage examples of this term, see Citations:eve.
Anagrams
References
Finnish
Noun
eve
- (slang) ecstasy (drug)
Declension
| Inflection of eve (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | eve | evet | |
| genitive | even | evejen | |
| partitive | eveä | evejä | |
| illative | eveen | eveihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | eve | evet | |
| accusative | nom. | eve | evet |
| gen. | even | ||
| genitive | even | evejen eveinrare |
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| partitive | eveä | evejä | |
| inessive | evessä | eveissä | |
| elative | evestä | eveistä | |
| illative | eveen | eveihin | |
| adessive | evellä | eveillä | |
| ablative | eveltä | eveiltä | |
| allative | evelle | eveille | |
| essive | evenä | eveinä | |
| translative | eveksi | eveiksi | |
| instructive | — | evein | |
| abessive | evettä | eveittä | |
| comitative | — | eveineen | |