eve

From a variant of the Middle English noun even (itself from Old English ǣfen), with a pre-1200 loss of the terminal '-n', which was mistaken for an inflection.[1] See also the now archaic or poetic even (“evening”), from the same source.

• IPA^(key): /iːv/

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• Rhymes: -iːv
• Homophones: eave, Eve

eve (plural eves)

1. The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.
2. (archaic, poetic) Evening, night.
   • Mid-19th century, Clare, John, Autumn:

     I love to see the shaking twig / Dance till the shut of eve

   • 1896, Housman, A[lfred] E[dward], chapter XXVII, in A Shropshire Lad, lines 42-43:

     And has she tired of weeping / As she lies down at eve.

   • 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 79:

     Sitting on the dockside at Oban, watching the to-ing and fro-ing in the harbour on a perfect summer's eve, I reflect on a trip which has taken me through our busiest cities to traverse the country's main lines, as well as explore some of the furthest extremities that were literally out on a limb.

3. (figurative) The period of time when something is just about to happen or to be introduced

   Antonyms: evening, winter

   the eve of a scientific discovery

• (evening): een, eventide, forenight; see also Thesaurus:evening

• yestereve

• evening
• even

• eve at OneLook Dictionary Search

• EeV, Vee, vee

eve

1. three

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

• IPA^(key): /ˈeve/

eve

1. two

Slang, from ekstaasi (folk-etymologically connected with the nickname Eve, with which it is unrelated)

• IPA^(key): /ˈeʋe/, [ˈe̞ʋe̞]
• Rhymes: -eʋe
• Syllabification^(key): e‧ve

eve

1. (slang) ecstasy (drug)

• ekstaasi

• vee

eve (present tense ever, past tense eva or evet, past participle eva or evet)

1. (reflexive) to wait, doubt, drag one's feet

• “eve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• Homophone: æve

From Old Norse efa, ifa.[1] Compare also with earlier ivast.

• (verb): eva (a- and split infinitives)
  • (Aasen) æva, ivast[2]
• (noun): (Aasen) Æve[3]

eve (present tense evar, past tense eva, past participle eva, passive infinitive evast, present participle evande, imperative eve/ev)

1. (reflexive) to wait, doubt, drag one's feet

eve m (definite singular even, indefinite plural evar, definite plural evane)

1. doubt, uncertainty

Related to eva (Etymology 2) and ev.[1]

• eva (non-standard since 2012)

eve f (definite singular eva, indefinite plural ever, definite plural evene)

1. trace, rest

Latin aqua.

eve f (oblique plural eves, nominative singular eve, nominative plural eves)

1. Alternative form of iaue; water

eve

1. buttocks

eve

1. singular dative of ev

• ev (southern zazaki)

eve

1. the