Eden

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːdən/
• Rhymes: -iːdən

From Hebrew עֵדֶן‎ (eden), perhaps from Sumerian 𒂔 (edin, “steppe, garden”).

Eden

1. (biblical) A garden built by God as the home for Adam and Eve; sometimes identified as part of Mesopotamia.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 2:8:

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     And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

2. An English surname​, probably derived from a place name.
   • 1896, H G Wells, The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham

     It was no good. I felt beyond all question that I was indeed Eden, not Elvesham. But Eden in Elvesham's body!

3. A female given name from the biblical place name; also a medieval diminutive of Old English compound names beginning with the element ēad (“riches”).
   • 1986 Barbara Vine ( =Ruth Rendell): A Dark-Adapted Eye: page 35:

     We call Edith Eden now because that is what she called herself before she could pronounce 'th'. It is rather a lovely name, I think. Edith sounds like someone's old aunt. I can't think why Mother and Father chose it.

4. Any of various towns and other place names.
   1. A city/town in Idaho.
   2. A census-designated place in Maryland.
   3. A village in Mississippi.
   4. A town in New York.
   5. A city in North Carolina.
   6. A town/village in South Dakota.
   7. A city in Texas.
   8. A census-designated place in Utah.
   9. A town in Vermont.
   10. One of two towns and a village in Wisconsin.
   11. A census-designated place in Wyoming.

• Edenic
• Edenton

Eden (countable and uncountable, plural Edens)

1. (by extension, countable) A paradise on Earth.
2. (by extension, uncountable) A state of innocence.

Eden

1. A river in Cumbria, England, which passes Carlisle and empties into the Solway Firth.
2. A river in Kent, England, which flows into the Medway; the name is a back-formation of Edenbridge.
3. A river in Fife, Scotland, which flows into the North Sea.
4. Eden Water in the Scottish Borders, which flows into the River Tweed.
5. Eden District, a local government district in Cumbria formed in 1974 and named after the Cumbrian river, with its headquarters in Penrith.

• Dene, Dené, Ende, deen, dene, need

Eden

1. Alternative spelling of Eeden

Eden

1. Rōmaji transcription of エデン