eden

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
noun 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)

EDEN, A Discourse on Banishment. — William Pitt and national revival, J. Holland (John Holland) Rose
Eden will be reconstructed by A+B. — Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
EAST OF EDEN (Harper's Magazine), 24. — The best short stories of 1917, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown

paradise, nirvana, heaven, promised land, Shangri-la

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