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English noun: Eve | |||
| 1. | Eve (person) (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 hypernym | adult female, woman | ||
| Domain category | Old Testament | ||
| 2. | eve (time) the day before | ||
| Samples | He always arrives on the eve of her departure. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | 24-hour interval, day, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours | ||
| 3. | eve (time) the period immediately before something | ||
| Samples | On the eve of the French Revolution. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | period, period of time, time period | ||
| 4. | eve (time) the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) | ||
| Samples | He enjoyed the evening light across the lake. | ||
| Synonyms | even, evening, eventide | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | day, daylight, daytime | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | guest night | ||
| Part holonym | crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, sundown, sunset, twilight | ||
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