noun. The evening or day preceding a special day, such as a holiday.

noun. The period immediately preceding a certain event.

noun. Evening.

To become damp.

noun. A hen-roost.

noun. The close of the day; the evening.

noun. The night or evening (often, and specifically in the Roman Catholic Church, the day and night) before certain holy days of the church, marked more or less generally by religious and popular observances.

noun. The period just preceding some specific event; a space of time proximate to the occurrence of something: as, the eve of a battle; on the eve of a revolution.

noun. Evening.

noun. The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset, not at midnight; ; also, the period immediately preceding some important event.

noun. the European goatsucker or nightjar; -- called also night churr, and churr owl.

noun. The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.

noun. Evening, night.

verb. To come before something, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.

noun. the period immediately before something

noun. the day before

noun. (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

noun. the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)