eves
Nights before holidays
Eves is the plural of eve, the evening or day before a significant occasion: Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, the eve of battle.
The word suggests anticipation—a threshold moment before something important begins.
On the eves of elections, candidates make final appeals.
Backward enumeration to zero
- anticipationState of awaiting something
- preparationArranging things in advance
- thresholdPoint of beginning
- precipiceSteep rock face
brink · cusp · verge · imminence · vigil · waiting · expectation · momentous
First created man
- EdenScriptural original paradise
- GenesisFirst biblical book
- serpentCunning, limbless reptile
- forbidden fruitEnticing thing that's prohibited
original sin · fall of man · paradise · garden · apple · rib · temptation · banishment
countdown
Backward enumeration to zero
- anticipationState of awaiting something
- preparationArranging things in advance
- thresholdPoint of beginning
precipice · brink · cusp · verge · imminence · vigil · waiting · expectation · momentous · milestone
Adam
First created man
forbidden fruit · original sin · fall of man · paradise · garden · apple · rib · temptation · banishment · tree of knowledge
twilights
Periods between sunset and night
gloamings · nightfalls · sundowns · vespers · shadows · dimness · candlelight · moonlight · starlight · nocturnes
evesmorrows
Future days, poetically
aftermaths · days after · sequels · postscripts · epilogues
evesmiddles
Central portions
culminations · climaxes · heights · peaks
- good eveningNighttime salutation
- this eveningToday's nighttime hours
- New Year's EveAnnual December celebration night
- Christmas EveDecember 24th observance
- evening starsLights emerging after sunset
- early eveningTime between afternoon and night