Eden
['i:dən]
Definition
(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.
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Definition
(n.) The garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt; hence, a delightful region or residence.
Typist: Ted
Definition
n. the garden where Adam and Eve lived: a paradise.—adj. Eden′ic.
Editor: Sharon
Examples
- And, at all events, I have erected one thoroughly happy, peaceful spot,—a modern Eden,—and that is no easy thing to do in this riotous century. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- For, sailors to be got the better of, were essential to Miss Pleasant's Eden. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Some lives _are_ thus blessed: it is God's will: it is the attesting trace and lingering evidence of Eden. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- How tremblingly I approached the window and glanced into your Eden--an Eden for me, though a desert for you! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Maurice was in ecstasies over this Eden of the South, and could not express his delight in high enough terms to his companions. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I seemed to pay the deepest attention to him, but I was wandering in a garden of Eden all the while, with Dora. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- This is one of the roses of Eden that the Lord has dropped down expressly for the poor and lowly, who get few enough of any other kind. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Remember what Adam wanted when he was alone in the Garden of Eden; and if you don't blame it in Adam, don't blame it in me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It is an old habit of the race which seems to have begun with the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Canaries of unrivalled vivacity and intelligence: worthy of the garden of Eden, worthy also of the garden in the Regent's Park. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The reality is no more like it than the Five Points are like the Garden of Eden. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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