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Eden garden

Eden garden proper noun: the Garden of Eden.

Proper noun

Eden garden

  1. The Garden of Eden.
    • What a strangely apt picture in a few words (if we like to take it so) of the long pilgrimage of the Human Race, its early and pathetic clinging to the tradition of the Eden-garden, its careless and vigorous boyhood, its meditative youth, with consciousness of sin and endless expiatory ritual in...1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 175

Noun

Eden garden (plural Eden gardens)

  1. An idyllic place wherein innocence and perfection reign; any delightful region or abode; a wondrously abundant garden or lush natural habitat.
    • But the forgetfulness was not entire; the memory lingered long of an age of harmony, of an Eden-garden left behind.1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 175
    • The origin of these fruits is an Eden-garden, she thinks.1986, Dolores Rosenblum, Christina Rossetti: The Poetry of Endurance, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, page 73
  2. A state or condition of unsullied innocence.
    • Nature, in endowing her little ones - in planting in the heart of each of them an Eden garden, fairer than the terrestrial paradise which Adam lost - reads a great lesson to their guides and teachers.1849, Hogg's Instructor, Edinburgh: James Hogg, page 810, column 1

Forms of Eden garden

Proper noun
alternative formEden-garden
Noun
pluralEden gardens

Questions about Eden garden

What does Eden garden mean?
Eden garden means the Garden of Eden.
What part of speech is Eden garden?
Eden garden can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Eden garden in the dictionary

  1. edemic
  2. edemogen
  3. edemogens
  4. eden
  5. Eden Creek
  6. Eden garden
  7. Eden gardens
  8. Eden Park
  9. Eden Prairie
  10. Eden-garden
  11. Eden-gardens

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