1. (Abrahamic religions) In the Book of Genesis of the Bible and Surat Sad of the Qur'an, a garden at the source of the Gihon, Pishon, Tigris, and Euphrates rivers, where Adam and Eve first lived after being created.

   Synonyms: paradise

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Genesis 3:23–24 ↗:

     Therefore the smallcaps Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

• French: jardin d'Éden
• German: Garten Eden
• Italian: giardino dell'Eden
• Portuguese: Jardim do Éden
• Russian: Эде́м
• Spanish: jardín de Edén

Garden of Eden

1. (cellular automata) A pattern that can only exist as an initial state and is not reachable from any other state.