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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun eden has 2 senses
- eden(n = noun.location) heaven, nirvana, paradise, promised land, shangri-la - any place of complete bliss and delight and peace; Array is a kind of part, region
- eden(n = noun.cognition) garden of eden - 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); Array is a kind of heaven
CIDE DICTIONARY
eden, n. [Heb. ēden delight, pleasure; also, a place of pleasure, Eden.].
The garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt; hence, a delightful region or residence. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
eden, n. (also Garden of Eden) a place or state of great happiness; paradise (with reference to the abode of Adam and Eve in the biblical account of the Creation).
Etymology
ME f. LL f. Gk Eden f. Heb. ' eden, orig. = delight
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eden
Agapemone, Arcadia, Big Rock-Candy Mountain, Canaan, Cloudcuckooland, Cockaigne, Eldorado, Erewhon, Garden of Eden, Goshen, Happy Valley, Land of Youth, Laputa, Never-Never-land, Neverland, New Atlantis, Pandemonium, Quivira, Shangri-la, Utopia, cloudland, dreamland, dystopia, faerie, fairyland, heaven, kakotopia, kingdom come, land of dreams, land of enchantment, land of faerie, land of plenty, land of promise, lotus land, millennium, paradise, promised land, utopia, wonderlandROGET THESAURUS
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Heaven
N heaven, kingdom of heaven, kingdom of God, heavenly kingdom, throne of God, presence of God, inheritance of the saints in light, Paradise, Eden, Zion, abode of the blessed, celestial bliss, glory, Olympus, Elysium (paradise), Elysian fields, Arcadia, bowers of bliss, garden of the Hesperides, third heaven, Valhalla, Walhalla (Scandinavian), Nirvana (Buddhist), happy hunting grounds, Alfardaws, Assama, Falak al aflak the highest heaven (Mohammedan), future state, eternal home, eternal reward, resurrection, translation, resuscitation, apotheosis, deification, heavenly, celestial, supernal, unearthly, from on high, paradisiacal, beatific, elysian, looks through nature up to the nature's god, the great world's altarstairs, that slope through darkness up to God, the treasury of everlasting joy, vigeur de dessus.
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