eve
noun
[ iːv ]
• the day or period of time immediately before an event or occasion.
• "on the eve of her departure he gave her a little parcel"
Similar:
day before,
evening before,
night before,
period before,
the run-up to,
Opposite:
day after,
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘close of day’): short form of even2.
