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Definition of eve noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

eve

noun
 
/iːv/
 
/iːv/
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  1. the day or evening before an event, especially a religious festival or holiday
    • Christmas Eve (= 24 December)
    • a New Year’s Eve party (= on 31 December)
    • on the eve of the election
    • a special election eve show
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    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • Christmas
    • Midsummer’s
    • New Year’s
    • …
    preposition
    • on the eve of
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  2. (old use or literary) evening
    • one midsummer’s eve
    3. Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘close of day’): short form of even ‘evening’.
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