A eden

[eed-n] /ˈid n/
noun
(robert) anthony, earl of avon, 1897–1977, british statesman: prime minister 1955–57.
eden1
/ˈiːdən/
noun
(old testament) also called garden of eden. the garden in which adam and eve were placed at the creation
a delightful place, region, dwelling, etc; paradise
a state of great delight, happiness, or contentment; bliss
derived forms
edenic (iːˈdɛnɪk) adjective
word origin
c14: from late latin, from hebrew `ēdhen place of pleasure
eden2
/ˈiːdən/
noun
sir (robert) anthony, earl of avon. 1897–1977, british conservative statesman; foreign secretary (1935–38; 1940–45; 1951–55) and prime minister (1955–57). he resigned after the controversy caused by the occupation of the suez c-n-l zone by british and french forces (1956)
eden
n.

early 13c., “delightful place,” figurative use of the place described in genesis, usually referred to hebrew edhen “pleasure, delight,” but perhaps from ugaritic base ‘dn and meaning “a place that is well-watered throughout” (see also aden).

delight. (1.) the garden in which our first parents dewlt (gen. 2:8-17). no geographical question has been so much discussed as that bearing on its site. it has been placed in armenia, in the region west of the caspian sea, in media, near damascus, in palestine, in southern arabia, and in babylonia. the site must undoubtedly be sought for somewhere along the course of the great streams the tigris and the euphrates of western asia, in “the land of shinar” or babylonia. the region from about lat. 33 degrees 30’ to lat. 31 degrees, which is a very rich and fertile tract, has been by the most competent authorities agreed on as the probable site of eden. “it is a region where streams abound, where they divide and re-unite, where alone in the mesopotamian tract can be found the phenomenon of a single river parting into four arms, each of which is or has been a river of consequence.” among almost all nations there are traditions of the primitive innocence of our race in the garden of eden. this was the “golden age” to which the greeks looked back. men then lived a “life free from care, and without labour and sorrow. old age was unknown; the body never lost its vigour; existence was a perpetual feast without a taint of evil. the earth brought forth spontaneously all things that were good in profuse abundance.” (2.) one of the markets whence the merchants of tyre obtained richly embroidered stuffs (ezek. 27:23); the same, probably, as that mentioned in 2 kings 19:12, and isa. 37:12, as the name of a region conquered by the -ssyrians. (3.) son of joah, and one of the levites who -ssisted in reforming the public worship of the sanctuary in the time of hezekiah (2 chr. 29:12).

eden

district, administrative county of c-mbria, northwestern england, in the eastern part of the county. a line running through the district from the river tees, past the village of culgaith and along the river eamont and the ullswater, to stybarrow dodd is a boundary between the historic counties of westmorland and c-mberland; the area south of the line-including the town of appleby, the upper vale of eden, and the eastern edge of the lake district-lies in westmorland, and the area north of the line-including the towns of alston and penrith and the middle vale of eden-forms part of c-mberland
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