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Garden of eden
name, noun
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Proper Noun
- 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."
Noun
- 1 An idyllic place wherein innocence and perfection reign; any delightful region or abode; a pastoral utopia; an Arcadia. figuratively
- 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) wordnet
- 3 A state or condition of unsullied innocence. figuratively
- 4 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."
Etymology
Etymology 1
Calque of Biblical Hebrew גַּן עֵדֶן (gan ʿḗḏen).
Etymology 2
Calque of Biblical Hebrew גַּן עֵדֶן (gan ʿḗḏen).
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