eve
English
Etymology
From a variant of the Middle English noun even (itself from Old English ǣfen), with a pre-1200 loss of the terminal '-n', which was mistaken for an inflection. [1] See also the now archaic or poetic even (“evening”), from the same source.
Pronunciation
Noun
eve (plural eves)
- The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.
- (archaic, poetic) Evening, night.
- Mid-19th cent., John Clare, Autumn:
- I love to see the shaking twig
- Dance till the shut of eve
- 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXVII, line 42-43
- has she tired of weeping / As she lies down at eve.
- Mid-19th cent., John Clare, Autumn:
- (figurative) The period of time when something is just about to happen or to be introduced.
- the eve of a scientific discovery
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
day or night before
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Further reading
- “eve”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
References
- ^ “eve”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Anagrams
Aiwoo
Numeral
eve
References
- Lua error in Module:quote at line 884: |date= should contain a full date (year, month, day of month); use |year= for year. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
Ewe
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Cardinal : eve Ordinal : evelia | ||
Pronunciation
Numeral
eve
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 | ||
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 | ||
abessive | evettä | eveittä | ||
instructive | — | evein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
Anagrams
Old French
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin aqua.
Pronunciation
Noun
eve oblique singular, f (oblique plural eves, nominative singular eve, nominative plural eves)
Turkish
Noun
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