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单词 eve star
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eve starn.

Brit. /ˈiːv ˌstɑː/, U.S. /ˈiv ˌstɑr/
Forms: see eve n.2 and star n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: eve n.2, star n.1
Etymology: < eve n.2 + star n.1 Compare earlier evenstar n.
In later use literary and poetic. Now rare.
A star or planet visible in the evening; spec. Venus; = evening star n.
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the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > inferior planet > [noun] > Venus > as evening star
evenstarOE
Hesperusc1374
eve stara1387
vesper1390
evening star1535
night star1595
Vesperugo1600
shepherd's lamp1827
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 301 Þis Spayne..heet somtyme Hesperia of Espera [read Hespera], the eue sterre [L. stella vespertina].
?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) i. met. v. l. 510 Þe euesterre esperus [L. Hesperos]..is pale by þe morwe at þe rysynge of þe sonne.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 144 Evesterre, esperus, vesper.
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Love in W. W. Skeat Chaucerian & Other Pieces (1897) 97 (MED) Him that weneth [read weyveth] the moone for fayrenesse of the eve-sterre.
1772 G. A. Stevens Songs Comic & Satyrical 2 So she sparkled the morn and eve Star.
1841 Ladies' Compan. Aug. 177/1 Gloriously brilliant the eve-star comes forth.
1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic xii There peered May's earliest eve-star.
1960 J. Kerouac Let. 22 Nov. in Sel. Lett. 1957–69 (1999) 275 I'll..get a cabin in the woods too, where..I just admire the same old eve star..which droopeth on Iowa tonight just as ever.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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