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bliss

noun
/blɪs/

Etymology

From Middle English bliss, from Old English bliss, variant of earlier blīds, blīþs (“joy, gladness”), from Proto-West Germanic *blīþisi (“joy, goodness, kindness”).

  1. inherited from *blīþisi✻
  2. inherited from bliss
  3. inherited from bliss

Definitions

  1. Perfect happiness.

    • The afternoon at the spa was utter bliss.
    • Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, / But to be young was very heaven!

  2. An English surname transferred from the nickname originating as a nickname.

  3. A unisex given name from English.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. a programming language used for systems programming primarily on computers produced by…

      a programming language used for systems programming primarily on computers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation. Bliss is a parallel language to C, both being derived from B and BCPL

    2. A place in the United States

      A place in the United States:

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bliss. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA