eve
IPA: ˈiv
noun
- The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.
- (archaic, poetic) Evening, night.
- (figurative) The period of time when something is just about to happen or to be introduced
- (Abrahamic religions) The first woman and mother of the human race; Adam's wife.
- An unspecified primordial woman, from whom many or all people are descended.
- A female given name from Hebrew.
- An unincorporated community in Kentucky, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Missouri, United States.
- (cryptography) A conventional name for an agent attempting to intercept a message sent by Alice that is intended for Bob.
- An English surname.
- Abbreviation of endogenous viral element. [Viral DNA embedded within the genome of a non-virus organism which is left over from an ancestral infection which integrated viral DNA into the genomic heritage of the organism's ancestry.]
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Examples of "eve" in Sentences
- It's Christmas eve and the merriment has begun.
- On the eve of the feast, the Divine Liturgy is celebrated.
- Flowers that were uprooted by vandals on Christmas Eve lie.
- He arrived in Prussia on the eve of the catastrophe of Jena.
- The campus burned to the ground on Thanksgiving Eve in 1954.
- The inauguration took place on the eve of the American Civil War.
- The serpent of Genesis appears in the Garden of Eden to tempt Eve.
- Landscapes of Cultivation in Mesoamerica on the Eve of the Conquest.
- On the eve of the revolution, a traitor told the Spanish of their plan.
- Eve is a Boomer prostitute that attracts the attention of the Boomer Crusher.
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