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Eden

Syllabification: (E·den)

Pronunciation: /ˈēdn/

(also Garden of Eden)

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Definition of Eden

the place where Adam and Eve lived in the biblical account of the Creation, from which they were expelled for disobediently eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
(as noun an Eden) a place or state of great happiness; an unspoiled paradise:the lost Eden of his childhood

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from late Latin (Vulgate), Greek Ēdēn (Septuagint), and Hebrew ῾Ēḏen; perhaps related to Akkadian edinu, from Sumerian eden 'plain, desert' (but believed to be related to Hebrew ῾ēḏen 'delight')

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