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Eden

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Bible The garden of God and the first home of Adam and Eve.
  • noun A delightful place; a paradise.
  • noun A state of innocence, bliss, or ultimate happiness.
  • (Robert) Anthony,British politician who as foreign minister (1935–1938, 1940–1945, and 1951–1955) was instrumental in the founding of the United Nations (1945) and as prime minister (1955–1957) supported the 1956 Anglo-French invasion of Egypt.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In the Bible, the name of the garden which was the first home of Adam and Eve: often, though not in the English version of the Bible, called Paradise.
  • noun A region mentioned in the Bible, the people of which were subdued by the Assyrians. It is supposed to have been in northwestern Mesopotamia (2 Ki. xix. 12; Isa. xxxvii. 12).
  • noun Figuratively, any delightful region or place of residence. Also Aden.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt; hence, a delightful region or residence.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun biblical A garden built by God as the home for Adam and Eve; sometimes identified as part of Mesopotamia
  • proper noun by extension A paradise on Earth; a state of innocence
  • proper noun Various place names
  • proper noun An English surname, probably derived from a place name.
  • proper noun A female given name from the biblical place name; also a medieval diminutive of Old English compound names beginning with the element ēad ("riches").

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation; when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were driven from their paradise (the fall of man)
  • noun any place of complete bliss and delight and peace

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Late Latin, from Greek Ēdēn, from Hebrew ‘ēden, delight, Eden; see g̣dn in Semitic roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Hebrew עדן (eden), perhaps from Sumerian e-den "Steppe, garden".

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Examples

  • The Torah begins in gan eden -- the Garden of Eden, a place of utter perfection, in which there is no suffering, no longing, no loss.

    Sharon Brous: Defying Despair: Why I Believe 2008

  • EDEN - The Somerset County Historical Society hosts an early November Harvest Season Evening at the Bordeleau Vineyards & Winery, a society fundraiser offering a sampling of local foods and a personalized tour of the Lower Eastern Shore winery in rural Eden on Noble Farm Road.

    unknown title 2009

  • EDEN - A teenager was arrested Sunday night following a triple stabbing in Eden.

    GoTriad Archives 2008

  • EDEN - A teenager was arrested Sunday night following a triple stabbing in Eden.

    GoTriad Archives 2008

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  • A power of attorney is a matter of personal trust; and I am at a loss to understand how, under - this appointment, Mx. Eden% name could be intro - duced, or how 'the house of Eden and Court became jointly associated in the business that was to bie transacted under it,

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  • "Martin Eden" is a story that cannot fail to appeal strongly to everyone, the picture of an intellectual Individualist who failed because of his lack of faith in man.

    JACK LONDON AND HIS WORK 2010

  • But for the serious minded youth of America, Great Britain, and all countries where Jack London's work has been translated — youth considering life with a purpose — "Martin Eden" is the beacon.

    Preface 2010

  • The story, which presages the suicidal disappointments of Martin Eden, is a reverse twist on a book that London loved all his life, Signa (1875) by the English novelist Marie Louise de la Ramée, who wrote under the penname "Ouida."

    The woe of an aspiring genius. 2008

  • London's The Call of the Wild and White Fang are listed as books for youth whereas Martin Eden is belles-lettres or "fine literature."

    A Bibliographical Essay 2007

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  • ima062002 commented on the word Eden

    Eden has several pronunciations. There is the English kind, with an "ee" sound at the start, or the Hebrew one, where the name starts with a short "eh" sound.

    March 4, 2011

  • qroqqa commented on the word Eden

    Actually the Hebrew begins with the consonant `ayin.

    March 4, 2011