Dawn vs. Eve

Dawnverb

(intransitive) To begin to brighten with daylight.

‘A new day dawns.’;

Evenoun

The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.

Dawnverb

(intransitive) To start to appear or be realized.

‘I don’t want to be there when the truth dawns on him.’;

Evenoun

Evening, night.

Dawnverb

(intransitive) To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.

Evenoun

(figurative) The period of time when something is just about to happen or to be introduced

‘the eve of a scientific discovery’;

Dawnnoun

(uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.

Evenoun

Evening.

‘Winter oft, at eve resumes the breeze.’;

Dawnnoun

(countable) The rising of the sun.

Evenoun

The evening before a holiday, - from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset, not at midnight; as, Christmas eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event.

Dawnnoun

(uncountable) The time when the sun rises.

‘She rose before dawn to meet the train.’;

Evenoun

(Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; God created Eve from Adam's rib and placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

Dawnnoun

(uncountable) The beginning.

‘the dawn of civilization’;

Evenoun

the day before;

‘he always arrives on the eve of her departure’;

Dawnverb

To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.

‘In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene . . . to see the sepulcher.’;

Evenoun

the period immediately before something;

‘on the eve of the French Revolution’;

Dawnverb

To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.

‘When life awakes, and dawns at every line.’; ‘Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid.’;

Evenoun

the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall);

‘he enjoyed the evening light across the lake’;

Dawnnoun

The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.

‘And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve.’; ‘No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon,No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day.’;

Eve

Eve (; Hebrew: חַוָּה‎, Chava /χaˈva/, Tiberian: Ḥawwāh; Arabic: حَوَّاء‎, romanized: Ḥawwāʾ; Greek: Εὕα, romanized: Heúa; Latin: Eva, Heva; Syriac: ܚܰܘܳܐ romanized: ḥawâ) is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran. According to the origin story of the Abrahamic religions, she was the first woman, yet some debate within Judaism has also given that position to Lilith.

Dawnnoun

First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise.

‘These tender circumstances diffuse a dawn of serenity over the soul.’;

Dawnnoun

the first light of day;

‘we got up before dawn’; ‘they talked until morning’;

Dawnnoun

the earliest period;

‘the dawn of civilization’; ‘the morning of the world’;

Dawnnoun

an opening time period;

‘it was the dawn of the Roman Empire’;

Dawnverb

become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions;

‘It dawned on him that she had betrayed him’; ‘she was penetrated with sorrow’;

Dawnverb

appear or develop;

‘The age of computers had dawned’;

Dawnverb

become light;

‘It started to dawn, and we had to get up’;

Dawn

Dawn is the time that marks the beginning of twilight before sunrise. It is recognized by the appearance of indirect sunlight being scattered in Earth's atmosphere, when the centre of the Sun's disc has reached 18° below the observer's horizon.