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GARDEN OF EDEN
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I. (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)
Synonyms:
Eden; Garden of Eden
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Garden of Eden" is a kind of...):
Heaven (the abode of God and the angels)