In some religious traditions/mythology, Eve is not the first woman on Earth. First God created Adam, then Lilith. However, Lilith was a little too "uppity" for God and Adam's tastes. She wanted to be the sexually dominate one -- she wanted to be on top.
She ignored God's commands to be subservient to Adam, so God reduced her to a pile of dust. God then put Adam to sleep and took one of his ribs and made Eve out of it. Since Eve was of Adam (or dependent on him for her very existence) she was much more tame and followed Adam and God. Well, at least until that forbidden fruit thing..
Eve (?), n. [See Even, n.]
1.
Evening.
Winter oft, at eve resumes the breeze. Thomson.
2.
The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event.
Keble.
Eve churr Zool, the European goatsucker or nightjar; -- called also night churr, and churr owl.
© Webster 1913.
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