eve
noun /iːv/
/iːv/
- the day or evening before an event, especially a religious festival or holiday
- Christmas Eve (= 24 December)
- a New Year’s Eve party (= on 31 December)
- on the eve of the election
- a special election eve show
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- Christmas
- Midsummer’s
- New Year’s
- …
- on the eve of
- (old use or literary) evening
- one midsummer’s eve
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘close of day’): short form of even ‘evening’.