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Webster 1913 Edition

Eve

Eve

(ēv)
,
Noun.
[See
Even
,
Noun.
]
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, Christmas
eve
is the evening before Christmas
; also, the period immediately preceding some important event.
“On the eve of death.”
Keble.
Eve churr
(Zoöl.)
,
the European goatsucker or nightjar; – called also
night churr
, and
churr owl
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Eve

EVE

,
Noun.
The consort of Adam, and mother of the human race; so called by Adam, because she was the mother of all living. In this case,the word would properly belong to the Hebrew. But the Hebrew name is havah or chavah, coinciding with the verb, to shew, to discover, and Parkhurst hence denominates Eve, the manifester. In the Septuagint, Eve, in Gen.3.20, is rendered life; but in Gen.4.1,
it is rendered Euan or Evan. The reason of this variation is not obvious, as the Hebrew is the same in both passages. In Russ. Eve is Evva. In the Chickasaw language of America, a wife is called awah, says Adair.

Definition 2024

Ève

Ève

See also: eve, Eve, EVE, éve, Êve, and Eʋe

French

Proper noun

Ève

  1. (biblical) Eve (wife of Adam)
  2. A female given name.

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