Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun eve

4 senses of eve

Sense 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)
       INSTANCE OF=> woman, adult female -- (an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted")

Sense 2
eve -- (the day before; "he always arrives on the eve of her departure")
       => day, twenty-four hours, twenty-four hour period, 24-hour interval, solar day, mean solar day -- (time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis; "two days later they left"; "they put on two performances every day"; "there are 30,000 passengers per day")

Sense 3
eve -- (the period immediately before something; "on the eve of the French Revolution")
       => time period, period of time, period -- (an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period")

Sense 4
evening, eve, even, eventide -- (the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall); "he enjoyed the evening light across the lake")
       => day, daytime, daylight -- (the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside; "the dawn turned night into day"; "it is easier to make the repairs in the daytime")