Definitions for Eve

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Eve eve

Spelling: [eev]

IPA: /iv/

Eve is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 9 anagrams from letters in Eve (eev).

Definitions for Eve

noun

1. (sometimes initial capital letter) the evening or the day before a holiday, church festival, or any date or event:
2. the period preceding or leading up to any event, crisis, etc.:
3. the evening.
4. name of the first woman: wife of Adam and progenitor of the human race. Gen. 3:20.
5. a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “life.”.

Origin of Eve

1200-50; Middle English; variant of even²

Examples for Eve

The escalatory ladder is far more terrifying than it was on the eve of the millennium.

Such ideas as Paradise, Adam and eve, and angels, are getting obsolete.

Young women on the eve of a vacation were not usually so reasonable.

It is matched six months away by the festival of May Day and by the eve of Walpurgis Night which precedes it.

We never see Him bring the bud to the eve of blossoming just to wither it.

When I met him, on the eve of the first debate, he was dressed in a natty gray suit and was the picture of serenity.

Now, in the greatest age of science ever, Americans are debating whether Adam and eve rode dinosaurs.

At last, on the eve of the happy day, everything was in readiness.

He may perhaps be on the eve of starting away by some of the vessels in the port.

Liu was nearing the 20th anniversary of his arrival in America, having landed from China on Christmas eve, 1994, at the age of 12.