Eden

Proper noun

 * 1)  A garden built by God as the home for Adam and Eve; sometimes identified as part of Mesopotamia
 * And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
 * 1)  A paradise on Earth; a state of innocence
 * 2) Various place names
 * , probably derived from a place name.
 * 1) * 1896, H G Wells, The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham
 * It was no good. I felt beyond all question that I was indeed Eden, not Elvesham. But Eden in Elvesham's body!
 * 1)  from the biblical place name; also a medieval diminutive of  compound names beginning with the element ēad:.
 * 2) * 1986 Barbara Vine ( =Ruth Rendell): A Dark-Adapted Eye: page 35:
 * We call Edith Eden now because that is what she called herself before she could pronounce 'th'. It is rather a lovely name, I think. Edith sounds like someone's old aunt. I can't think why Mother and Father chose it.
 * We call Edith Eden now because that is what she called herself before she could pronounce 'th'. It is rather a lovely name, I think. Edith sounds like someone's old aunt. I can't think why Mother and Father chose it.

Derived terms

 * Edenic

Thesaurus
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, wonderland

Etymology
עדן:, perhaps from e-den "Steppe, garden".

Translations

 * Arabic: جنات عدن, عدن
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian: Éden, Édenkert


 * Lithuanian: Edenas, Edeno sodas
 * Russian: Эдем
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: ,
 * Russian: Эдем


 * Spanish:

Anagrams

 * dene
 * need