Eden (n.)

  1. any place of complete bliss and delight and peace

    [ Syn: eden , paradise , nirvana , heaven , promised land , shangri-la ]

  2. 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)

    [ Syn: eden , garden of eden ]

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