EDEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Eden mean? 

• EDEN (noun)
  The noun EDEN has 2 senses:

1. any place of complete bliss and delight and peace

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)

  Familiarity information: EDEN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EDEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Eden; heaven; nirvana; paradise; promised land; Shangri-la

Hypernyms ("Eden" is a kind of...):

part; region (the extended spatial location of something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

Eden; Garden of Eden

Hypernyms ("Eden" is a kind of...):

Heaven (the abode of God and the angels)

 Context examples 

So it was that Martin Eden solved the problem.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Beyond that is Jerusalem and the Holy Land, and the great river which hath its source in the Garden of Eden.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I seemed to pay the deepest attention to him, but I was wandering in a garden of Eden all the while, with Dora.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I have a rosy sky and a green flowery Eden in my brain; but without, I am perfectly aware, lies at my feet a rough tract to travel, and around me gather black tempests to encounter.' You ran downstairs and demanded of Mrs. Fairfax some occupation: the weekly house accounts to make up, or something of that sort, I think it was. I was vexed with you for getting out of my sight.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Martin Eden, the first thing to-morrow you go to the free library an' read up on etiquette.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Martin Eden never looked at him without experiencing a sense of repulsion.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He, Martin Eden, was a better man than that fellow.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"By the way, Mr. Eden," she called back, as she was leaving the room.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Several weeks went by, during which Martin Eden studied his grammar, reviewed the books on etiquette, and read voraciously the books that caught his fancy.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Who are you, Martin Eden? he demanded of himself in the looking-glass, that night when he got back to his room.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)