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Garden of Eden

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Garden of Eden
n.
See Eden.
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Noun1.Garden of Eden - 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
Heaven - the abode of God and the angels
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Beebe disclaimed placing the Garden of Eden anywhere.
A Room With A View by Forster, E. M. View in context
I live on an atoll, a low island, it is a strip of land surrounding a lagoon, and its beauty is the beauty of the sea and sky and the varied colour of the lagoon and the grace of the cocoa-nut trees; but the place where Strickland lived had the beauty of the Garden of Eden.
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
While I was making this Christmas visit I met an old coloured man who was one of the numerous local preachers, who tried to convince me, from the experience Adam had in the Garden of Eden, that God had cursed all labour, and that, therefore, it was a sin for any man to work.
Up From Slavery by Washington, Booker T. View in context
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