Eden
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6.3
- proper noun
- /ˈiːdən/
- Literature
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- The Garden of Eden was described as a paradise filled with beautiful plants and animals.
- Garden of Eden
- expulsion from Eden
- stories of Eden
Kathy Griffin, people who like they've cast out from the Garden of Eden.
- Kathy Griffin, people who like they've cast out from the Garden of Eden.
- And I thought if I eat the Mars bar, it's sweet and it's all that right that the apple is the Garden of Eden, right?
- So Garden of Eden, to your point, Adam and Eve are there, they're hanging out.
- And you returned to the Garden of Eden for time.
- The concept of the Garden of Eden was changing around this.
- You know, think of the snake in the, in the Garden of Eden, you know, uncertainty.
- God made Adam, gave him everything, the whole world, the Garden of Eden and all this cool stuff, right?
- Our problems in technology, in politics, wherever are human problems, from the Garden of Eden to today.
- We'd be in the Garden of Eden picking fruit and just happy and stupid, you know.
- And also to be created sinful because of, you know, Adam and Eve's transgression in the Garden of Eden.
- And I wonder, you know, whether there was an attempt also to locate the Garden of Delights, the Garden of Eden specifically in, in a place, right.
- It is about the Genesis story, about how human beings screwed it up in the middle of the Garden of Eden.
Examples
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Adam hid in the Garden of Eden.
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Our home is the Garden of Eden!
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The Garden of Eden contains first of all just Adam.
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And you returned to the Garden of Eden for time.
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The Garden of Eden is gone.
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How suddenly it was not the Garden of Eden anymore after the Fall.
Fiction book (1994) -
If ever there was a Garden of Eden, this was it.
Academic text (2003) -
The central theme of this movement is the Garden of Eden and what occurs there.
Academic text (1994) -
Miami is more like the Garden of Eden than I ever realized.
Fiction book (2002) -
I sometimes imagine if I could go back in time and look in on the Garden of Eden, I would see his likeness reflected in Adam, the first man.
Synonyms
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5.1
A perfect, untouched garden in the Bible where the first humans lived and a way to say an unspoiled place
Antonyms
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4.9
A person who lives away from their home country, often for political or personal reasons
Compounds
- Literature
23
5.1
A perfect, untouched garden in the Bible where the first humans lived and a way to say an unspoiled place
Surface Forms
Etymology
Eden is the name of the garden in the Bible and comes from a Hebrew word eden that means 'delight' or 'pleasure', so the garden's name shows it was seen as a place of perfect beauty and innocence.