eve

noun (1)

\ ˈēv

Definition of eve

(Entry 1 of 2)

1 : evening

2 : the evening or the day before a special day

3 : the period immediately preceding

Eve

noun (2)

\ ˈēv

Definition of Eve (Entry 2 of 2)

: the first woman, the wife of Adam, and the mother of Cain and Abel

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Noun (1)

from morn to eve the settlers toiled to eke a living from the harsh land

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Youth unemployment rose to more than 34% in 2017, compared with some 29% in 2010, on the eve of the Arab Spring, according to the International Labor Organization. — Jared Malsin, WSJ, "Eight Years After Egypt’s Uprising, a New Autocrat Is Determined Not to Permit a Sequel," 25 Jan. 2019 According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report released on the eve of the conference, all scenarios limiting warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit assume steep reductions in coal consumption—to zero by 2050. — Rupert Darwall, WSJ, "Defeat in the Air at the Climate Conference," 18 Dec. 2018 But on the eve of landing, the calculations show the landing bull’s-eye was 11 miles off. — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, "NASA's InSight Sticks Its Martian Landing," 26 Nov. 2018 That's just what Prince Charles did on the eve of his 7oth birthday. — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, "Peek Inside Prince Charles and Camilla's Private Library on a New Virtual Tour of Clarence House," 13 Nov. 2018 Trump is traveling to Mississippi for two Hyde-Smith rallies Monday on the eve of the election. — Emily Wagster Pettus, The Seattle Times, "US senator says no ill will, intent behind ‘hanging’ remark," 21 Nov. 2018 Interpol issued a red notice for Estonian politician and intelligence chief Eerik-Niles Kross on the eve of the 2013 elections in the tiny Baltic country of 1.3 million. — Kamran Bokhari, WSJ, "The Kremlin’s Interpol Power Play," 20 Nov. 2018 Jeff Bottari / Getty Images for Variety Tomorrow is Election Day, and on the eve of voting, peer-pressure apps like OutVote and VoteWithMe are making it easy to instantly snoop on the voting history of friends, family and strangers. — Recode Staff, Recode, "Recode Daily: Viral game-show app HQ Trivia faces some existential questions," 5 Nov. 2018 Thus does the master thief Debbie Ocean exhort her female partners in crime on the eve of their big jewelry heist in the director Garry Ross’s Ocean’s 8. — Christopher Orr, The Atlantic, "The Modestly Diverting Gender Swap of Ocean’s 8," 8 June 2018

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