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How to spell eve
Eve is spelled E-V-E.
What it means: The day or evening just before a special day.
In a sentence: On Christmas Eve, we baked cookies for Santa.
Same family: evening, eventide, New Year's Eve, Christmas Eve, on the eve of. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: “Eve” comes from Old English “ǣfen,” meaning evening. Over time, it also gained the special sense of “the day or time just before an important event,” as in “New Year’s Eve.”
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