| n. | 1. | Evening. | |||
| 2. | The evening before a holiday, - from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset, not at midnight;
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| Noun | 1. | Eve - (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. | eve - the day before; "he always arrives on the eve of her departure" | |
| 3. | eve - the period immediately before something; "on the eve of the French Revolution" | |
| 4. | eve - the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall); "he enjoyed the evening light across the lake" |
| EVE - Extensible VAX Editor |
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