EDEN

Eden, Garden of Eden

(noun) 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)

Eden, paradise, nirvana, heaven, promised land, Shangri-la

(noun) any place of complete bliss and delight and peace

Source: WordNet® 3.1


E"den, n. Etym: [Heb. eden delight, pleasure; also, a place of pleasure, Eden.]

Definition: The garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt; hence, a delightful region or residence.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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28 February 2025

PRESCRIPTIVE

(adjective) pertaining to giving directives or rules; “prescriptive grammar is concerned with norms of or rules for correct usage”


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Coffee Trivia

The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.

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