eve
eve is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event. "On the eve of death." Keble. Eve churr (Zoöl), the European goatsucker or nightjar; -- called also night churr, and churr owl.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- afore
- aforehand
- aforementioned
- aforesaid
- afternoon
- already
- antecedence
- antecedent
- anterior
- anteriority
- anticipate
- arch
- autumn
- autumnal
- bedtime
- before
- beforehand
- candlelight
- close
- come
- curfew
- dawn
- day
- dead
- decline
- dewy
- down
- dusk
- early
- eleventh
- equinox
- ere
- erewhile
- evening
- eventide
- fall
- forerun
- forestall
- former
- gain
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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