garden of eden

1. 1.

   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)

   SynonymsEden

   BroaderHeaven

Questions about garden of eden

What does garden of eden mean?

garden of eden means "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)".

What is another word for garden of eden?

Close synonyms include Eden. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is garden of eden a common word?

garden of eden is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.