Eden in French

Eden in French

What does "Eden" mean?

1. name A garden built by God as the home for Adam and Eve; sometimes identified as part of Mesopotamia.
   "And the LORD God planted a garden Eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed."
2. name An English surname, probably derived from a place name.
   "It was no good. I felt beyond all question that I was indeed Eden, not Elvesham. But Eden in Elvesham's body!"
3. name A female given name from Hebrew from the biblical place name; also a medieval diminutive of Old English compound names beginning with the element ēad (“riches”).
   "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. name Any of various towns and other place names. A coastal town in New South Wales, Australia.

Eden in a sentence

• And the LORD God planted a garden Eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
• It was no good. I felt beyond all question that I was indeed Eden, not Elvesham. But Eden in Elvesham's body!
• 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.
• The first explorers saw America as an Eden.

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