eve

«eve» in Mova's school dictionary: The day or evening before a special day: Christmas Eve… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an eve, eves; Eve — a name)

meaning for a pupil

1) The day or evening before a special day: Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve. tree →

2) The time just before an important event: on the eve of the match. tree →

3) (old or poetry) Evening. tree →

4) Eve — a girl's name; in the Bible, the first woman. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life families celebrate Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve; in stories «on the eve of the battle» means the night before. Phrases: «Christmas Eve», «New Year's Eve», «on the eve of».

examples

• We open one present on Christmas Eve. tree →
• On New Year's Eve we stayed up until midnight. tree →
• On the eve of the final, the players went to bed early. tree →
• Eve is my best friend's name. tree →
• The streets were busy on the eve of the holiday. tree →
• In the old poem, the farmer came home at eve. tree →

note

Capital letter in festival names (Christmas Eve) and for the name Eve. Not the same as «even» or «evening». In time problems, Christmas Eve is the day just before Christmas Day.

In the corpora

• Adam and Eve are the first man and woman in the Bible, made by God and placed in the Garden of Eden.
• God told Adam and Eve they could eat from every tree except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
• The serpent persuaded Eve that God was keeping something good from her; she ate the fruit and gave some to Adam.
• After eating, Adam and Eve hid from God; Adam blamed Eve, and Eve blamed the serpent.
• Even after sending Adam and Eve out of the garden, God made clothes for them.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «eve» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.