GARDEN OF EDEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Garden of Eden mean? 

• GARDEN OF EDEN (noun)
  The noun GARDEN OF EDEN has 1 sense:

1. 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: GARDEN OF EDEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GARDEN OF EDEN (noun)

Sense 1

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

Heaven (the abode of God and the angels)

 Context examples 

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)