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eden
/ˈiː.dən/
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What does eden mean?
noun
- A paradise on Earth.
- A state of innocence.
proper noun
- A garden built by God as the home for Adam and Eve; sometimes identified as part of Mesopotamia.
More meanings (36)
proper noun
- An English surname, probably derived from a place name.
- A female given name from Hebrew from the biblical place name; also a medieval diminutive of Old English compound names beginning with the element ēad (“riches”).
- A coastal town in New South Wales, Australia.
- A small unincorporated community in Graham County, Arizona.
- A city and town in Jerome County, Idaho.
- An unincorporated community in Peoria County, Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Randolph County, Illinois.
- An unincorporated community in Hancock County, Indiana.
- A small unincorporated community in Atchison County, Kansas.
- An unincorporated community in Butler County, Kentucky.
- A census-designated place in Somerset County, Maryland.
- An unincorporated community in Dodge County, Minnesota.
- A village in Yazoo County, Mississippi.
- A town in Erie County, New York.
- A city in Rockingham County, North Carolina.
- A small town and village in Marshall County, South Dakota.
- A small city in Concho County, Texas.
- A census-designated place in Weber County, Utah.
- A town in Lamoille County, Vermont.
- An unincorporated community in Wahkiakum County, Washington.
- An unincorporated community in Boone County, West Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Ohio County, West Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia.
- A town and village in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.
- A small town in Iowa County, Wisconsin.
- A census-designated place in Sweetwater County, Wyoming.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Eden Township.
- A river in Cumbria, England, which passes Carlisle and empties into the Solway Firth.
- A river in Kent, England, which flows into the Medway; the name is a back-formation of Edenbridge.
- A river in Fife council area, Scotland, which flows into the North Sea.
- A small river in the Scottish Borders council area, which flows into the River Tweed; in full, Eden Water.
- A former local government district in Cumbria, England, formed in 1974 and named after the Cumbrian river, with its headquarters in Penrith; abolished in 2023 and merged into Westmorland and Furness; in full, Eden District.
- A residential settlement in County Antrim, Ireland.
- Three townlands in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
- A townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
noun
- (rare) Alternative letter-case form of Eden (“a paradise”).
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IPA pronunciation
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They lingered in the old garden until twilight, sweet as dusk in Eden must have been, crept over it.
But here is the same testimony that in the Garden of Eden there were four rivers radiating from one parent stream.
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I seemed to pay the deepest attention to him, but I was wandering in a garden of Eden all the while, with Dora.
From the depths of the gloom wherein you dwell, you do not see much more distinctly than we the radiant and distant portals of Eden.
The land was a garden of Eden before them, behind a howling wilderness, as is so graphically told in Gibbon's great history.