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Garden of Eden en · NOUN

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Etymology

Calque of Biblical Hebrew גַּן עֵדֶן (gan ʿḗḏen).

Meanings

1. (figuratively) An idyllic place wherein innocence and perfection reign; any delightful region or abode; a pastoral utopia; an Arcadia.
   • Near-synonyms: earthly paradise, paradise, rose garden
   • The utopian socialists promised the peasants a Garden of Eden.
2. (figuratively) A state or condition of unsullied innocence.
3. A pattern that can only exist as an initial state and is not attainable from any other state.
   • In this paper the author presents some properties regarding the existence or non-existence of gardens of Eden for the cellular automata. 1986, Patrick Chenin, Claire Di Crescenzo, François Robert, Computers and Computing: Proceedings, page 181:
   • I have gotten interested in Garden-of-Eden configurations in Life. All that I have been able to uncover thus far is that there are 2 know configurations: 1989 October 20, Rajeev Pandey, “hints and topics, anyone?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
   • A configuration e not in the image of τ, namely e ∈ C \ τ[C] is called a Garden of Eden (briefly GOE) configuration, this biblical terminology being motivated by the fact that GOE configurations only appear as initial configurations. 2004, Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein with Francesca Fiorenzi and Fabio Scarabotti, “The Garden of Eden Theorem for Cellular Automata and for Symbolic Dynamical Systems”, in Vadim A. Kaimanovich, editor, Random Walks and Geometry: Proceedings of a Workshop at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna, June 18 - July 13, 2001, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, →OL:

Forms

Synonyms

earthly paradise · rose garden · paradise

Garden of Eden en · PROPN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Calque of Biblical Hebrew גַּן עֵדֶן (gan ʿḗḏen).

Meanings

1. In the Book of Genesis of the Bible and Surat Sad of the Qur'an, a garden at the source of the Gihon, Pishon, Tigris, and Euphrates rivers, where Adam and Eve first lived after being created.
   • Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 3:23–24:
   • Up until two decades ago, the Garden of Eden was, we thought, in Eastern Ontario, where the McIntosh variety happened along. Probably Americans feel you had two Gardens of Eden, the first one being where the Red Delicious was discovered, and the second one, where the Golden Delicious was discovered. The Australians must have thought the Garden of Eden was somewhere in Australia, where the Granny Smith appeared. According to the Bible, however, there was only one Garden of Eden and probably the population explosion started there, but from that time onward, all control was lost of both apple production and population. 1971, Western Fruit Grower, volume 25/26, Western Farm Publications:
   • “Were there many Gardens of Eden?” Surely! To read only of the biblical Adam and Eve is to grasp the story in this one way. In the hills they speak of the beginning as the time of the giants, another utopia. In eastern heathen lands, surely giants reigned in many Edens. 2001, George Szanto, The Condesa of M., Cormorant Books Inc., →ISBN, page 173:
   • Latter-day Saints know, through modern revelation, that the Garden of Eden was on the North American continent and that Adam and Eve began their conquest of the earth in the upper part of what is now the state of Missouri. 1943, John A. Widtsoe, Evidences and Reconciliations: Aids to Faith in a Modern Day, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, ch. 22, page 127:
   • For religious thinkers like William Warren and Landon West, the whole point of Eden was to unify mankind. To have two Gardens of Eden was worse than having none at all. 2011, Brook Wilensky-Lanford, “Practically Paradise”, in Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden, Grove Press, →ISBN:

Forms

Deriveds

Garden of Weeden

Relateds

Adam's apple · forbidden fruit · original sin

Synonyms

paradise · Paradise · earthly paradise

Translations (53)

grc Ἐδέμ (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · nan-hbl 埃田園 /埃田园 (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · ja エデンの園 (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · ga Gairdín Éidin (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · fr Éden (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · es jardín de Edén (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · el Εδέμ (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · da Eden (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · yue 伊甸園 /伊甸园 (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · sw bustani ya Edeni (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · hu édenkert (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · da Paradisets Have (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · de Garten Eden (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · nn hagen i Eden (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · fr jardin d'Éden (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · ro Grădina Edenului (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · br liorzh Eden (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · fi Eedenin puutarha (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · yi גן־עדן (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · la paradisus voluptatis (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · gl Xardín do Edén (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · id taman Eden (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · lad ganedén (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · gd Gàrradh Edein (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · ee Eden-bɔ (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · da Edens Have (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · cmn 伊甸園 /伊甸园 (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · nb Edens hage (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · br Eden (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · et Eedeni aed (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · nl hof van Eden (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · nn Edens hage (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · cy Gardd Eden (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · ar عَدْن (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · it giardino dell'Eden (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · la hortus in Eden (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · ar جَنَّة عَدْن (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · ar جَنَّات عَدْن (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · la paradisus in Eden (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · ko 에덴 동산 (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · lv Ēdenes dārzs (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · swb zarde ya Eden (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · hak 伊甸園 /伊甸园 (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · hi अदन की वाटिका (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · gd Gàradh Edein (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · ga Gairdín Pharthais (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · ca Jardí de l'Edèn (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · hu éden (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · eu Eden (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · he גַּן עֵדֶן (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · uk Едем (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · pt Jardim do Éden (place where Adam and Eve first lived) · ru Эде́м (place where Adam and Eve first lived)

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