eve
/iːv/ nounDefinition
Christmas Eve/New Year's Eve › the day or night before Christmas Day/New Year's Day
the eve of sth › the time just before something important happens: They were married in Washington on the eve of the Second World War.
(Definition of eve noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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