EVE


Meaning of EVE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Christmas Eve

We spent Christmas Eve cooking and getting ready for Christmas Day.

Eve's pudding

New Year's Eve

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

election

Considered a must-win state, with its vital 21 electoral votes, it was too close to call on election eve .

About the only occasion on which a question was put to Kinnock about foreign policy was on the election eve Spitting Image.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Christmas Eve

New Year's Eve

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Back in 1988 he had the nerve to raise interest rates on the eve of the Republican convention.

Found hanging.Another student dies on the eve of term.

He wrings his hands like a fly and clinches his eves at the awful sound of that squeaking.

However, on the eve of the referendum, the majority of priests preached against abortion.

Neighbours were evacuated as smoke billowed from the semi-detached bungalow in Didcot, Oxon, late on Christmas eve .

Now, on the eve of the formation of the congress, is a good time to clear up any misapprehensions.

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