Eve (Over the Rhine album)
WordNet
noun
(1) (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; God created Eve from Adam's rib and placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
(2) The day before
"He always arrives on the eve of her departure"
(3) The latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)
"He enjoyed the evening light across the lake"
(4) The period immediately before something
"On the eve of the French Revolution"
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Etymology
From < Hebrew חַוָּה (havah) = 'life; living one; lively; giving life'.
Proper noun
- According to the Bible and Qur'an, the first woman and mother of the human race; Adam's wife.
- An unspecified primordial woman, from whom many or all people are descended.
- The Seven Daughters of Eve; mitochondrial Eve
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Quotations
- 1611 — King James Version of the Bible, Genesis 3:20
- And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
- 1904 — Mark Twain, Extracts from Adam's Diary
- After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
- 1970 - L.P.Hartley: My Sister's Keeper: page 113:
- "You were always a cynic," said Edith tolerantly. "I'm sure that Eve will want to have a baby - isn't that why we called her Eve?"
- "Of course not," said Herbert, as if the baby-cult had long been irritating him. "We called her Eve, or Evelyn, after your grandmother, who was going to leave, and did leave us some money."