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paradise

noun
/ˈpæɹ.ə.daɪ̯s/UK/ˈpɛɹ.ə.daɪ̯s//ˈpæɹ.ə.daɪs/

Etymology

From Middle English paradis, paradise, paradys, from Late Old English paradīs, borrowed from Old French paradis, from Latin paradīsus, from Ancient Greek παράδεισος (parádeisos), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *paridayjah. Doublet of parvis. Displaced Old English neorxnawang.

  1. derived from *paridayjah✻
  2. derived from παράδεισος
  3. derived from paradīsus
  4. derived from paradis
  5. inherited from paradīs
  6. inherited from paradis

Definitions

  1. The place where sanctified souls are believed to live after death.

    • Living in paradise comes with a price.
    • And Jesus said unto him [the malefactor], Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.

  2. A garden where Adam and Eve first lived after being created.

    • Not that Adam that kept the Paradise but that Adam that keeps the prison:
    • Up into Heav’n from Paradise in hast Th’ Angelic Guards ascended,
    • Government like dress is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

  3. A very pleasant place, such as a place full of lush vegetation.

    • an island paradise in the Caribbean
    • Let me live here ever; So rare a wonder’d father and a wife Makes this place Paradise.
  4. ›+ 21 more definitions

    1. An ideal place for a specified type of person, activity, etc.

      • a shoppers’ paradise
      • And at this point, also, begins the pilot’s paradise: a wide river hence to New Orleans, abundance of water from shore to shore, and no bars, snags, sawyers, or wrecks in his road.
      • But the idea that Singapore is a deregulated paradise is not borne out by reality, as anyone who has tried to dispose of a piece of used chewing gum there will know.

    2. A very pleasant experience.

      • The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death.
      • […] sitting by him, roused from the nightmare of parting—called to the paradise of union—I thought only of the bliss given me to drink in so abundant a flow.
      • He poured the last of the wine as Fanny, her face composed as she stroked his leg, after a paradise of expectation touched his aroused organ.

    3. An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, such as the space within a…

      An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, such as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.

    4. A churchyard or cemetery.

    5. The upper gallery in a theatre.

    6. A cake, often as a paradise slice.

    7. To place (as) in paradise.

      • Man himselfe […] euen then, when hee was first paradis’d in the Garden of pleasure, yet had something to doe in it, and was not suffered to walke idlely vp & downe like a Loyterer […]
      • Hadst thou seene Her, in whose breast my heart was paradis’d, Kist, courted, and imbrac’d.

    8. To transform into a paradise.

      • 1613, Thomas Heywood, “Epithalamion” in A Marriage Triumphe Solemnized in an Epithalamium, London: Edward Marchant, She enters with a sweet commanding grace, Her very presence paradic’d the place:

    9. To affect or exalt with visions of happiness.

    10. Heaven.

    11. The Garden of Eden.

    12. A town in Grenada.

    13. A village in Suriname.

    14. A settlement on the island of Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.

    15. A number of places in the United States

      A number of places in the United States:

    16. A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

    17. A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.

    18. A number of places in Australia

      A number of places in Australia:

    19. A rural locality north of Glenorchy, Otago, New Zealand.

    20. A number of places in England

      A number of places in England:

    21. A number of places in the Philippines

      A number of places in the Philippines:

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Derived

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