eve: Meaning and Definition of

eve

1. (sometimes cap.) the evening or the day before a holiday, church festival, or any date or event: Christmas Eve; the eve of an execution.
2. the period preceding or leading up to any event, crisis, etc.: on the eve of the American Revolution.
3. the evening.

Eve

1. name of the first woman: wife of Adam and progenitor of the human race. Gen. 3:20.
2. a female given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “life.”