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EVE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(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
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))
Domain category:
Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The day before
Example:
he always arrives on the eve of her departure
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("eve" is a kind of...):
24-hour interval; day; mean solar day; solar day; twenty-four hour period; twenty-four hours (time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)
Example:
he enjoyed the evening light across the lake
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("eve" is a kind of...):
day; daylight; daytime (the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside)
Meronyms (parts of "eve"):
sundown; sunset (the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon)
crepuscle; crepuscule; dusk; evenfall; fall; gloam; gloaming; nightfall; twilight (the time of day immediately following sunset)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eve"):
guest night (an evening when members of a club or college can bring their friends as guests)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The period immediately before something
Example:
on the eve of the French Revolution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("eve" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Context examples:
You must admit that it is curious and suggestive that this incident should occur on the eve of this important match, and should involve the only man whose presence seems essential to the success of the side.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is Christmas Eve. I dance, drink, make a good time, for to-morrow is Christmas Day and we will rest. But no. It is five o'clock in the morning—Christmas morning. I am two hours asleep. The man stand by my bed. 'Come, Charley,' he says, 'harness the dogs. We start.'
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
In spite of their Unitarian proclivities and their masks of conservative broadmindedness, they were two generations behind interpretative science: their mental processes were mediaeval, while their thinking on the ultimate data of existence and of the universe struck him as the same metaphysical method that was as young as the youngest race, as old as the cave-man, and older—the same that moved the first Pleistocene ape-man to fear the dark; that moved the first hasty Hebrew savage to incarnate Eve from Adam's rib; that moved Descartes to build an idealistic system of the universe out of the projections of his own puny ego; and that moved the famous British ecclesiastic to denounce evolution in satire so scathing as to win immediate applause and leave his name a notorious scrawl on the page of history.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Are you hoping to go out for New Year’s Eve?
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
“Nay, trouble not for that,” said Alleyne, “we are all from good mother Eve.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
'Mrs. Gardiner would be happy to see Miss March and Miss Josephine at a little dance on New Year's Eve.' Marmee is willing we should go, now what shall we wear?
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
And when friends are on the eve of separation, they like to spend the little time that remains to them close to each other.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
This discovery, led by researchers at the University of Cambridge, was aided by Eve, an artificially-intelligent ‘robot scientist’.
(Toothpaste ingredient may help fight drug-resistant malaria, University of Cambridge)
If, on the eve of such a departure, you will accompany our mutual friend, Mr. Thomas Traddles, to our present abode, and there reciprocate the wishes natural to the occasion, you will confer a Boon
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
This will add magic to this holiday season, just in time to celebrate New Year’s Eve.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
