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noun 
  1. (context, archaic, or, poetic) evening, Evening.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: avondstond
  • French: veillée (du soir)
    (trans-mid)
  • Spanish: tarde
verb 
  1. To make flat and level.
We need to even this playing field; the west goal is too low.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: evenen, gelijkmaken, platmaken
  • French: applatir, égaliser, niveler
  • Spanish: allanar
adjective 
  1. Flat and level.
Clear out those rocks. The surface must be even.
  1. Without great variation.
Despite her fear, she spoke in an even voice.
  1. Equal in proportion, quantity, size etc.
The distribution of food must be even.
  1. (arithmetic) (no comparative or superlative) Leaving no remainder when divided by 2.
Four, fourteen and forty are even numbers.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: even, paar
  • German: gerade
  • Spanish: par
  • French: pair
    1. French, pair , paire
    2. Italian: pari
adverb (notcomp)
  1. (context, archaic or rhetorical) exactly, just, fully
I fulfilled my instructions as I had promised.
You are leaving tonight? — Even so.
  1. Implying an extreme example in the case mentioned, as compared to the implied reality
Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes.
Did you make it through the front door?
That was before I was born.
  1. Emphasising a comparative
I was strong before; but now I am stronger.
Translations: 
  • French: encore
  • Italian: anche
  • Dutch: zelfs, (niet) eens
  • Spanish: aíºn
    (trans-bottom)
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