eve
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
eve/iːv/
▶noun
- 1 the day or period of time immediately before an event.
■ the evening or day before a religious festival.
- 2 chiefly literary evening.
'eve' also found in these Oxford entries:
Ascensiontide
- Cain
- Christmas Eve
- Eden
- fall
- fig leaf
- Halloween
- Hogmanay
- Kol Nidre
- new year
- New Year's Eve
- stocking
- tree of knowledge
- vigil
- virago
- Walpurgis night
- wassail
- watchnight
- yule log
