Eloquent is an ORM which is part of the Laravel framework. When using Eloquent, each database table has a corresponding "Model" that is used to interact with that table. Eloquent models are usually stored in app/Models and extend from Laravel's model base class Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model. In addition to retrieving records from the database table, Eloquent models allow you to insert, update, and delete records from the table as well.