eve
noun/iːv/
/iːv/
- the day or evening before an event, especially a religious festival or holiday
（尤指宗教节假日的）前夜，前夕 - Christmas Eve (= 24 December)
圣诞前夕（12 月 24 日） - a New Year’s Eve party (= on 31 December)
除夕晚会 - on the eve of the election
在选举前夕 - a special election eve show
选举前夕的一场特别表演
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- Christmas
- Midsummer’s
- New Year’s
- …
- on the eve of
- Christmas Eve (= 24 December)
- (old use or literary) evening
傍晚；黄昏 - one midsummer’s eve
一个仲夏夜
- one midsummer’s eve
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘close of day’): short form of even ‘evening’.