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say it: EE-vin
even is an adjective, adverb, verb and noun meaning "divisible by two". It carries 14 recorded senses.
divisible by two
equal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced
“even amounts of butter and sugar”
“on even terms”
“it was a fifty-fifty (or even) split”
“had a fifty-fifty (or even) chance”
“an even fight”
being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with)
“an even application of varnish”
“an even floor”
“the road was not very even”
“the picture is even with the window”
symmetrically arranged
“even features”
“regular features”
“a regular polygon”
used as an intensive especially to indicate something unexpected
“even an idiot knows that”
“declined even to consider the idea”
“I don't have even a dollar!”
in spite of; notwithstanding
“even when he is sick, he works”
“even with his head start she caught up with him”
to the full extent
“loyal even unto death”
make even or more even
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for even come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.