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発音

• IPA: /iːv/
• 韻: -iːv
• 異形同音異義語: eave, Eve

名詞

eve (plural eves)

1. The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.

   She died on the eve of her 100th birthday.

2. (archaic, poetic) Evening, night.

   on a cold winter's eve.

   • Mid-19th century, John Clare, Autumn:

     I love to see the shaking twig / Dance till the shut of eve

   • 1896, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, chapter XXVII, in A Shropshire Lad, lines 42–43:

     And has she tired of weeping / As she lies down at eve.

   • 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 79:

     Sitting on the dockside at Oban, watching the to-ing and fro-ing in the harbour on a perfect summer's eve, I reflect on a trip which has taken me through our busiest cities to traverse the country's main lines, as well as explore some of the furthest extremities that were literally out on a limb.

3. (figurative) The period of time when something is just about to happen or to be introduced

   Antonyms: evening, winter

   the eve of a scientific discovery

同意語

• (evening): een, eventide, forenight; see also Thesaurus:evening

派生語

関連する語

• evening
• even

参照

Further reading

• “eve”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• EeV, Vee, vee