Holiday vs. Eve — What's the Difference?

A holiday is a day set aside by custom or by law on which normal activities, especially business or work including school, are suspended or reduced. Generally, holidays are intended to allow individuals to celebrate or commemorate an event or tradition of cultural or religious significance.

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.

An extended period of leisure and recreation, especially one spent away from home or in travelling.

The evening or day preceding a special day, such as a holiday.

A short period during which the payment of instalments, tax, etc. may be suspended

The period immediately preceding a certain event

Spend a holiday in a specified place

Evening.

A day free from work that one may spend at leisure, especially a day on which custom or the law dictates a halting of general business activity to commemorate or celebrate a particular event.

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

A religious feast day; a holy day.

Evening, night.

Chiefly British A vacation. Often used in the phrase on holiday.

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

To pass a holiday or vacation.

Evening.

A day on which a festival, religious event, or national celebration is traditionally observed.

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.

A day declared free from work by the state or government.

(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

A period of one or more days taken off work for leisure and often travel; often plural.

The day before;

A period during which pupils do not attend their school; often plural; rarely used for students at university (usually: vacation).

The period immediately before something;

(finance) A period during which, by agreement, the usual payments are not made.

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

A gap in coverage, e.g. of paint on a surface, or sonar imagery.

(intransitive) To take a period of time away from work or study.

To spend a period of time in recreational travel.

A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday.

A day of exemption from labor; a day of amusement and gayety; a festival day.

A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday.

Of or pertaining to a festival; cheerful; joyous; gay.

Occurring rarely; adapted for a special occasion.

Leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure;

A day on which work is suspended by law or custom;

Spend or take a vacation