单词 | eden |
释义 | Edenn.1 1. The abode of Adam and Eve at their creation, Paradise; also more fully, the garden of Eden. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [noun] > paradise paradiseOE Eden1382 Garden of Eden1535 Garden of God1535 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. iv. 16 Caym..dwellide at the eest plage of Eden. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. ii. B The Lorde God also planted a garden of pleasure in Eden [gardē in text]. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. iii. D Then the Lorde God put him out of the garden of Eden. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 143 Discovering..all the East Of Paradise and Edens happie Plains. View more context for this quotation 1796–7 S. T. Coleridge Poems (1862) 14 Ah flowers! which joy from Eden stole While innocence stood smiling by. 1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun II. x. 108 What the flaming sword was to the first Eden, such is the malaria to these sweet gardens and groves. 2. transferred and figurative. A delightful abode or resting-place, a paradise; a state of supreme happiness. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > supreme or heavenly happiness > [noun] blissc1175 Edena1225 heaven bliss?c1225 joyc1275 blessedheada1300 blissfulheada1340 third heavenc1384 paradisec1395 benisona1400 blessednessa1400 heavena1413 jocundnessc1426 everlastingness1434 jocundityc1450 beatitudea1492 beatification1502 blessedfulness1526 beautitude1578 Elysiuma1616 suavitya1617 seventh heaven1786 heaven of heavens1885 the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > supreme or heavenly happiness > [noun] > place of supreme happiness heaveneOE Edena1225 paradise?a1300 Garden of Eden1535 eutopia1553 happy land1562 Arcady1590 Hesperidesa1592 Elysiuma1616 God's own country1807 lotusland1856 Adamless Eden1876 summerland1895 Shangri-La1941 a1225 Juliana 79 He [the translator] mote beon a corn i godes guldene edene. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 42 This sceptred Ile,..This other Eden, demy Paradice. 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. v. vii. sig. Ll3v He inherits..a Gay and priviledg'd Plot of his Eden. 1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. ii. 128 Who acts thus wisely mark the moral Muse A blooming Eden in his life reviews. 1830 A. E. Bray Fitz of Fitz-ford I. i. 18 Mount Edgcombe, that Eden of Devon. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Gardener's Daughter in Poems (new ed.) II. 28 Henceforward squall nor storm Could keep me from that Eden where she dwelt. Derivatives Edenic adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [adjective] > of or relating to paradise paradisal1568 ambrosial1591 paradised1594 paradisaical1623 paradisean1647 paradisiacal1649 paradisic1723 paradisaic1754 paradisial1776 Edenic1850 1850 E. B. Browning Poems (new ed.) I. 75 By the memory of Edenic joys Forfeit and lost. 1865 D. Wilson Prehist. Man (ed. 2) iii. 22 The moral contrast which the savage presents to our conceptions of Edenic life. ˈEdenize v. (transitive) to make like Eden; to admit into Eden or Paradise. ΚΠ ?1605 J. Davies Wittes Pilgrimage sig. N4 Wee should not this affect, nor scarse effect, As beeing, for pure Saints Edenized, vnfitt. ˈEdenized adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [adjective] > received into assumpt1447 Edenized1864 1864 M. Clemmer Victoire 277 I gave up my being to the rapture of solitude in the hush of this Edenized retreat. ˌEdeniˈzation n. ΚΠ 1877 F. C. L. Wraxall tr. V. Hugo Les Misérables iv. v. 4 The Edenization of the world. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Edenn.2 Now chiefly historical. In full Eden hat. A Homburg hat of the type often worn by Sir Anthony Eden, usually black in colour; = Anthony Eden n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > made of specific material > felt > with dented, creased crown and curled brim fedora1883 trilby1897 Homburg1904 Anthony Eden1936 Eden1940 Indiana Jones hat1981 1940 R. Graves & A. Hodge Long Week-end xxi. 376 Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, had reintroduced the black Homburg hat, known as the ‘Eden’ in Savile Row. 1955 Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Aug. 439/5 He is supposed to have invented the ‘Eden Hat’; although King Edward VII would have called the same hat a Homburg. 2010 A. Schwartz Living Memory i. 27 It was a plus for him, my father's presence, with elegant clothing, with an Eden hat,..and looking like a gentleman. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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