Eden
Eden · Edens
небо, рай, небеса
Эдем
Eden
A paradise on EarthA paradise on Earth.
/ˈiːdən/
» Serpents have had a bad rap ever since the Garden of Eden.
darinmex · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
2 senses(broadly, countable)A paradise on Earth.
The first explorers saw America as an Eden.
Eden
Эде́мEdém
(broadly, uncountable)A state of innocence.
More definitions
- 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)
- any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
Examples
9 sentencesSerpents have had a bad rap ever since the Garden of Eden.
Oh, this is a day left over from Eden, isn't it, Diana?
A river flowed through Eden to water the garden, and there it split into four.
A river flowed through Eden to water the garden, and there it split into four branches.
The fruit at the Garden of Eden was not an apple. It is a European bias.
Translations
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Origin
From Biblical Hebrew עֵדֶן (ʿḗḏen), perhaps from Sumerian 𒂔 (edin, “steppe, garden”).From Biblical Hebrew עֵדֶן (ʿḗḏen), perhaps from Sumerian 𒂔 (edin, “steppe, garden”).
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Forms
plural: EdensSynonyms
6 synonymsClose in meaning
- 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):Garden of Eden
- any place of complete bliss and delight and peace:paradisenirvanaheavenpromised landShangri-la
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable