['i:d(?)n]
¦ noun
1. (also Garden of Eden) the place where Adam and Eve lived in the biblical account of the Creation.
2. a place or state of unspoilt happiness or beauty.
Derivatives
Edenic ?'d?n?k adjective
Origin
from late L. (Vulgate), Gk Eden (Septuagint), and Heb. ?E?en; perh. ult. from Sumerian eden 'plain, desert', but prob. related to Heb. ?e?en 'delight'.