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Noun eve has 4 senses

Eve - (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
--₁ is a kind of woman, adult female
eve - the day before; "he always arrives on the eve of her departure"
--₂ is a kind of day, twenty-four hours, solar day, mean solar day
eve - the period immediately before something; "on the eve of the French Revolution"
--₃ is a kind of time period, period of time, period
evening, eve, eventide - 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 is a kind of day, daytime, daylight
--₄ has parts:
sunset, sundown; twilight, dusk, gloaming, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle
--₄ has particulars: guest night