eve

nouns

the day before
"he always arrives on the eve of her departure"
eve
is a type of (narrower)
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
"two days later they left"; "they put on two performances every day"; "there are 30,000 passengers per day"
24-hour interval, day, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours
the period immediately before something
"on the eve of the French Revolution"
eve
is a type of (narrower)
an amount of time
"a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
period, period of time, time period
the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)
"he enjoyed the evening light across the lake"
eve, even, evening, eventide