Eve
noun
The day or period just before an event or occasion.
On the eve of her departure, she was very emotional
Often appears as...
- new year's eve
- christmas eve
noun
The part of the day from sunset to bedtime.
She would often take a walk in the cool of the eve
Often appears as...
- eve of sunset
- eve of twilight
noun
The first woman, according to the Bible, wife of Adam.
According to the Bible, Adam and Eve were the first humans on Earth
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Academic
noun
The day or period just before an event or occasion.
On the eve of her departure, she was very emotional
Often appears as...
- new year's eve
- christmas eve
noun
The part of the day from sunset to bedtime.
She would often take a walk in the cool of the eve
Often appears as...
- eve of sunset
- eve of twilight
noun
The first woman, according to the Bible, wife of Adam.
According to the Bible, Adam and Eve were the first humans on Earth
Usage tips
Academic
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Pro Tip 1/3Event Anticipation
Used when expressing the feeling or anticipation right before an important event.
On the eve of his promotion, he felt a mix of excitement and anxiety.
Pro Tip 2/3Preceding Celebrations
Commonly used to describe the night before major celebrations or holidays.
Children are usually ecstatic on Christmas Eve.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Moments
Marks the day before a historically significant date or event.
On the eve of the lunar landing, the world watched in anticipation.
Pro Tip 1/3Event Anticipation
Used when expressing the feeling or anticipation right before an important event.
On the eve of his promotion, he felt a mix of excitement and anxiety.
Pro Tip 2/3Preceding Celebrations
Commonly used to describe the night before major celebrations or holidays.
Children are usually ecstatic on Christmas Eve.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Moments
Marks the day before a historically significant date or event.
On the eve of the lunar landing, the world watched in anticipation.
Pro Tip 1/3Event Anticipation
Used when expressing the feeling or anticipation right before an important event.
On the eve of his promotion, he felt a mix of excitement and anxiety.
Pro Tip 2/3Preceding Celebrations
Commonly used to describe the night before major celebrations or holidays.
Children are usually ecstatic on Christmas Eve.
Pro Tip 3/3Historical Moments
Marks the day before a historically significant date or event.
On the eve of the lunar landing, the world watched in anticipation.
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Africa’s Astronomical...
setting the cosmic distance scale and measuring distances cosmologically not only that we can also measure the periodic dimming of stars that occurs when a planet orbits them and the orbit takes it within our line of sight and if we're actually going to observe life around another planet which I think we're on the eve of doing
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To listen is to live PIPE...
for many she told tale of what it was like to hear two years earlier by a doctor on Christmas Eve the chance three years left to live she had terminal cancer machine ever since that moment people that tried creates bucket list for her but she had her own vision of what should be done she said to date how
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"Home to You" / "Don't...
state largely built on oil and gas i understand my privilege and i understand the opportunities it has given me i'm so grateful but it's time to move on i rarely see it snow on christmas eve in my hometown anymore there's a new forest fire on the news every week and the polar ice is
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Why should you read...
"War and Peace" opens on the eve of war between France and Russia. Aristocrats at a cocktail party fret about the looming violence, but then change the topic to those things aristocrats always seem to care money, sex, and death. This first scene is indicative
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Geographic Bee 2010 - GA...
peaches on our license plates and an annual peach drop on year's eve even have peaches and our portable toilets so even though you don't produce as much as you can clearly see we still observe the title if I was in charge of the roof for
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Eve Ensler: Suddenly, my...
It was a way of keeping my head attached. It was a way of locating myself. I worried that I took my hat off I wouldn't be here anymore. I actually had a therapist who once said to me, "Eve, you've been coming here for two years,
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Olympic Training During...
and review us because that really helps other listeners find us overheard at national geographic is produced by alanna strauss brian gutierrez laura sim and me special thanks to our partners at espn pablo torre eve tro
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"The Cross-Eyed Beast" PIPE...
was in quite in keeping with his eve askable personality he was bald headed with a dumpy oversized by arms and legs that seemed hinged rather than connected and I is that one noticeably out of alignment once mr.
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Joan Halifax: Compassion...
for compassion to be activated, to be aroused, are particular conditions. I had that condition, to a certain extent, from my own childhood illness. Eve Ensler, whom you'll hear later,
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Stephen Burt: Why people...
So here's one of the first poems I memorized. It could address a child or an adult. "From far, from eve and morning From yon twelve-winded sky, The stuff of life to knit me
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Africa’s Astronomical...
setting the cosmic distance scale and measuring distances cosmologically not only that we can also measure the periodic dimming of stars that occurs when a planet orbits them and the orbit takes it within our line of sight and if we're actually going to observe life around another planet which I think we're on the eve of doing
Video examples
To listen is to live PIPE...
for many she told tale of what it was like to hear two years earlier by a doctor on Christmas Eve the chance three years left to live she had terminal cancer machine ever since that moment people that tried creates bucket list for her but she had her own vision of what should be done she said to date how
Video examples
"Home to You" / "Don't...
state largely built on oil and gas i understand my privilege and i understand the opportunities it has given me i'm so grateful but it's time to move on i rarely see it snow on christmas eve in my hometown anymore there's a new forest fire on the news every week and the polar ice is
Video examples
Why should you read...
"War and Peace" opens on the eve of war between France and Russia. Aristocrats at a cocktail party fret about the looming violence, but then change the topic to those things aristocrats always seem to care money, sex, and death. This first scene is indicative
Video examples
Geographic Bee 2010 - GA...
peaches on our license plates and an annual peach drop on year's eve even have peaches and our portable toilets so even though you don't produce as much as you can clearly see we still observe the title if I was in charge of the roof for
Video examples
Eve Ensler: Suddenly, my...
It was a way of keeping my head attached. It was a way of locating myself. I worried that I took my hat off I wouldn't be here anymore. I actually had a therapist who once said to me, "Eve, you've been coming here for two years,
Video examples
Olympic Training During...
and review us because that really helps other listeners find us overheard at national geographic is produced by alanna strauss brian gutierrez laura sim and me special thanks to our partners at espn pablo torre eve tro
Video examples
"The Cross-Eyed Beast" PIPE...
was in quite in keeping with his eve askable personality he was bald headed with a dumpy oversized by arms and legs that seemed hinged rather than connected and I is that one noticeably out of alignment once mr.
Video examples
Joan Halifax: Compassion...
for compassion to be activated, to be aroused, are particular conditions. I had that condition, to a certain extent, from my own childhood illness. Eve Ensler, whom you'll hear later,
Video examples
Stephen Burt: Why people...
So here's one of the first poems I memorized. It could address a child or an adult. "From far, from eve and morning From yon twelve-winded sky, The stuff of life to knit me
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
In Egypt, on the eve of Tahrir Square, there was a major poll which found that overwhelmingly - 80-90%, numbers like that - Egyptians regarded the main threats they face as the U.S. and Israel. They don't like Iran - Arabs generally don't like Iran - but they didn't consider it a threat.
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Matthew Henry
English Clergyman
Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.
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Henry David Thoreau
American Author
Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
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Sam Houston
American Politician
We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!
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Adam Green
American Director
Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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Bram Stoker
Irish Writer
It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?
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Charles Williams
English Editor
Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it.
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Paul Engle
American Poet
The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.
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Benny Gantz
Israeli Politician
Would the Benjamin Netanyahu of the eve of the election want me to get hurt? Regretfully, I would say so.
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Delta Burke
American Actress
Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I.
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Noam Chomsky
American Activist
In Egypt, on the eve of Tahrir Square, there was a major poll which found that overwhelmingly - 80-90%, numbers like that - Egyptians regarded the main threats they face as the U.S. and Israel. They don't like Iran - Arabs generally don't like Iran - but they didn't consider it a threat.
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Matthew Henry
English Clergyman
Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.
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Henry David Thoreau
American Author
Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
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Sam Houston
American Politician
We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!
Quote examples
Adam Green
American Director
Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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Bram Stoker
Irish Writer
It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?
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Charles Williams
English Editor
Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it.
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Paul Engle
American Poet
The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.
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Benny Gantz
Israeli Politician
Would the Benjamin Netanyahu of the eve of the election want me to get hurt? Regretfully, I would say so.
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Delta Burke
American Actress
Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I.
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