Pronunciation : Eve
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [See Even, n.]
Definition : 1. Evening. [Poetic] Winter oft, at eve resumes the breeze. Thomson.
2. The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event. "On the eve of death." Keble. Eve churr (Zo?l), the European goatsucker or nightjar; -- called also night churr, and churr owl.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913