Eden (New Zealand electorate)
WordNet
noun
(1) 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)
(2) Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
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Etymology
, perhaps from e-den "Steppe, garden".
Proper noun
- A garden built by God as the home for Adam and Eve; sometimes identified as part of Mesopotamia
- A paradise on Earth; a state of innocence
- Various place names
- , probably derived from a placename.
- from the biblical place name; also a medieval diminutive of compound names beginning with the element .
Quotations
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- And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
- 1986 Barbara Vine ( =Ruth Rendell): A Dark-Adapted Eye: page 35:
- We call Edith Eden now because that is what she called herself before she could pronounce 'th'. It is rather a lovely name, I think. Edith sounds like someone's old aunt. I can't think why Mother and Father chose it.