dictionary definitions for "eden"


From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  Eden
      n 1: any place of complete bliss and delight and peace [syn:
           Eden, paradise, nirvana, heaven, promised land,
           Shangri-la]
      2: 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) [syn: Eden, {Garden
         of Eden}]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Eden \E"den\, n. [Heb. [=e]den delight, pleasure; also, a place
     of pleasure, Eden.]
     The garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt; hence, a
     delightful region or residence.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008) [foldoc]:

  Eden
  
     A concurrent, object-oriented, distributed {operating
     system} and language, based on remote procedure call.  It
     has both synchronous and asynchronous message passing.
  
     ["The Eden System: A Technical Review", G. Almes et al, IEEE
     Trans Soft Eng SE-11(1):43-59 (Jan 1985)].
  


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