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English Dictionary: Eve by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Eve
n
  1. (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
  2. the day before; "he always arrives on the eve of her departure"
  3. the period immediately before something; "on the eve of the French Revolution"
  4. the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall); "he enjoyed the evening light across the lake"
    Synonym(s): evening, eve, even, eventide
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Eve \Eve\, n. [See {Even}, n.]
      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.
            [bd]On the eve of death.[b8] --Keble.
  
      {Eve churr} (Zo[94]l), the European goatsucker or nightjar;
            -- called also {night churr}, and {churr owl}.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   EVE
  
      {Extensible VAX Editor}
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Eve
      life; living, the name given by Adam to his wife (Gen. 3:20;
      4:1). The account of her creation is given in Gen. 2:21, 22. The
      Creator, by declaring that it was not good for man to be alone,
      and by creating for him a suitable companion, gave sanction to
      monogamy. The commentator Matthew Henry says: "This companion
      was taken from his side to signify that she was to be dear unto
      him as his own flesh. Not from his head, lest she should rule
      over him; nor from his feet, lest he should tyrannize over her;
      but from his side, to denote that species of equality which is
      to subsist in the marriage state." And again, "That wife that is
      of God's making by special grace, and of God's bringing by
      special providence, is likely to prove a helpmeet to her
      husband." Through the subtle temptation of the serpent she
      violated the commandment of God by taking of the forbidden
      fruit, which she gave also unto her husband (1 Tim. 2:13-15; 2
      Cor. 11:3). When she gave birth to her first son, she said, "I
      have gotten a man from the Lord" (R.V., "I have gotten a man
      with the help of the Lord," Gen. 4:1). Thus she welcomed Cain,
      as some think, as if he had been the Promised One the "Seed of
      the woman."
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Eve, living; enlivening
  
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