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Eve vs Neve - What's the difference?

eve | neve |

As an abbreviation eve

is .

As a noun neve is

.

eve

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.
  • Evening, night.
  • *Mid-19th cent. , John Clare, :
  • *:I love to see the shaking twig
  • *:Dance till the shut of eve

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    Verb

    (ev)
  • To come before something, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.

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    neve

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare, or, obsolete) Nephew.
  • * 1920 , Wilhelm Robert Richard Pinger, Laurence Sterne and Goethe :
    • Iwein considers it his right and duty to avenge his neve , and is much exercised when Artûs proposes to go to the well with his full strength, for he apprehends that the king will give the distinction of the combat to his sister's son Gâwein.
  • (rare, or, obsolete) A male cousin.
  • * 1988 , Michael Tepper, New World immigrants :
    • Still another passenger on the same ship was Gysbert Philips from Velthuysen, 24 years old, a "neve " ( nephew or cousin) of Cornelia Wynkoop.
  • (rare, or, obsolete) A grandson.
  • (rare) A spendthrift.

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