Eve
Eve (ēv) , noun
[See Even, n.]
1.
Evening. [Poetic]
Winter oft, at eve resumes the breeze.
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.
Collocations (1)
Eve churr (Zoology) , the European goatsucker or nightjar; -- called also night churr, and churr owl.