EVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Eve mean? 

• EVE (noun)
  The noun EVE has 4 senses:

1. (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. the day before
3. the period immediately before something
4. the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)

  Familiarity information: EVE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVE (noun)

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:

Nouns denoting people

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)

Meaning:

The day before

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Context example:

he always arrives on the eve of her departure

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)

Meaning:

The period immediately before something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Context example:

on the eve of the French Revolution

Hypernyms ("eve" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Meaning:

The latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

even; evening; eventide; eve

Context example:

he enjoyed the evening light across the lake

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)