Bible Dictionaries
Eve

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) The evening before a holiday, - from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event.

(2):

(n.) Evening.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Eve'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​e/eve.html. 1828.