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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Bible The garden of God and the first home of Adam and Eve. Also called Garden of Eden.
  2. n. A delightful place; a paradise.
  3. n. A state of innocence, bliss, or ultimate happiness.
  4. Eden, Sir (Robert) Anthony. First Earl of Avon. 1897-1977. 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.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. 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.
  2. n. 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).
  3. n. Figuratively, any delightful region or place of residence. Also Aden.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. 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. n. any place of complete bliss and delight and peace

Etymologies

  1. Hebrew עדן (eden), perhaps from Sumerian e-den "Steppe, garden". (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Late Latin, from Greek Ēdēn, from Hebrew 'ēden, delight, Eden; see ġdn in Semitic roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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.”

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  • “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

  • “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

  • “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.

  • “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.”

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  • “In addition, Martin Eden is a social novel as well.”

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  1. region
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  1. aiden
  2. edenic
  3. 6Your
  4. aden
  1. fall of man
  2. fall
  3. brockram
  4. edenization
  1. edenize
  2. goose-heiriffe
  3. tree of knowledge
  4. Dean
  1. obloquy
  2. Kazan
  3. tree of life
  4. Sagan
  1. of
  2. paradise
  3. Eden
  4. forbidden fruit
  1. eve
  2. Seat

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  • qroqqa Actually the Hebrew begins with the consonant `ayin. Mar 4, 2011

  • ima062002 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. Mar 4, 2011

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