## Etymology
From the biblical Garden of Eden, via Latin and Greek Edēn from Hebrew ʿĒḏen, traditionally connected with a word meaning 'delight, pleasure'; possibly also influenced by Sumerian edin ('plain, steppe').

## AI Etymology
Eden is from the biblical Garden of Eden, via Latin and Greek Edēn from Hebrew ʿĒḏen, traditionally connected with a word meaning 'delight, pleasure'; possibly also influenced by Sumerian edin ('plain, steppe'). The immediate etymological form is Hebrew ʿĒḏen. In present use as a noun, it means "a place of unspoiled happiness or delight", keeping the historical formation close to the word's ordinary semantic work. Derived forms include edenic. Its contrast set includes hell, inferno, and wasteland, which clarifies the semantic boundary of the modern word.

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