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Paradise

Paradise Meaning & Definition
Paradise Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Paradise?

[n] any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
[n] a heavenly place (peaceful and beautiful) where those who are favored by the gods can go when they die

Synonyms | Synonyms for Paradise: eden | Elysian Fields | Elysium | nirvana | promised land | Shangri-la | Valhalla

Related Terms | Find terms related to Paradise: a better place | afterlife | afterworld | Agapemone | alpine garden | arboretum | Arcadia | archives | auditorium | Avalon | balcony | bank | beatification | beatitude | bed | better world | Beulah | Beulah Land | bewitchment | Big Rock-Candy Mountain | bird sanctuary | blessedness | bliss | blissfulness | bog garden | border | botanical garden | box | box seat | Canaan | Celestial City | cheer | cheerfulness | City of God | Civitas Dei | cloud nine | Cloudcuckooland | cloudland | Cockaigne | common | commons | delectation | delight | destiny | dreamland | dress circle | dry garden | dystopia | ecstasy | ecstatics | Eden | elation | Eldorado | Elysium | empyrean | enchantment | Erewhon | eternal home | eternity | exaltation | exhilaration | exuberance | faerie | fairyland | fate | fauteuil | felicity | flower bed | flower garden | forest preserve | future state | gaiety | gallery | game reserve | garden | Garden of Eden | garden spot | gladness | glee | glory | Goshen | grape ranch | grapery | happiness | happy hunting ground | Happy Valley | heaven | heaven above | heavenly kingdom | herbarium | high heaven | high spirits | home | hortus siccus | Indian reservation | intoxication | Japanese garden | jardin | joy | joyance | joyfulness | kakotopia | kingdom come | kingdom of glory | kingdom of God | kingdom of heaven | kitchen garden | Land of Beulah | land of dreams | land of enchantment | land of faerie | land of plenty | land of promise | Land of Youth | Laputa | library | life after death | life to come | loge | lotus land | market garden | millennium | museum | national forest | national park | Neverland | Never-Never-land | New Atlantis | New Jerusalem | next world | nigger heaven | nirvana | orchestra | orchestra circle | ornamental garden | otherworld | overhappiness | overjoyfulness | Pandemonium | park | parquet | parquet circle | parterre | peanut gallery | pinetum | pit | pleasance | pleasure garden | pleasure ground | postexistence | presence of God | preserve | promised land | proscenium boxes | public park | Quivira | rapture | ravishment | realm of light | reservation | reserve | rock garden | roof garden | sanctuary | seventh heaven | Shangri-la | shrubbery | stall | standing room | state forest | store | sunken garden | sunshine | tea garden | the beyond | the good hereafter | the grave | the great beyond | the great hereafter | the happy land | the hereafter | the Promised Land | the unknown | the world above | theatre stall | transport | truck garden | unalloyed happiness | Utopia | Valhalla | vegetable garden | victory garden | vinery | vineyard | what bodes | what is fated | wilderness preserve | wildlife preserve | wonderland | world to come | Zion

See Also | Heaven | part | region

Paradise In Webster's Dictionary

\Par"a*dise\, n. [OE. & F. paradis, L. paradisus, fr. Gr. para`deisos park, paradise, fr. Zend pairida[=e]za an inclosure; pairi around (akin to Gr. ?) + diz to throw up, pile up; cf. Skr. dih to smear, and E. dough. Cf. {Parvis}.] 1. The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed after their creation. 2. The abode of sanctified souls after death. To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise. --Luke xxiii. 43. It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise. --Longfellow. 3. A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight; hence, a state of happiness. The earth Shall be all paradise. --Milton. Wrapt in the very paradise of some creative vision. --Beaconsfield. 4. (Arch.) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc. 5. A churchyard or cemetery. [Obs.] --Oxf. Gloss. {Fool's paradise}. See under {Fool}, and {Limbo}. {Grains of paradise}. (Bot.) See {Melequeta pepper}, under {Pepper}. {Paradise bird}. (Zo["o]l.) Same as {Bird of paradise}. Among the most beautiful species are the superb ({Lophorina superba}); the magnificent ({Diphyllodes magnifica}); and the six-shafted paradise bird ({Parotia sefilata}). The long-billed paradise birds ({Epimachin[ae]}) also include some highly ornamental species, as the twelve-wired paradise bird ({Seleucides alba}), which is black, yellow, and white, with six long breast feathers on each side, ending in long, slender filaments. See {Bird of paradise} in the Vocabulary. {Paradise fish} (Zo["o]l.), a beautiful fresh-water Asiatic fish ({Macropodus viridiauratus}) having very large fins. It is often kept alive as an ornamental fish. {Paradise flycatcher} (Zo["o]l.), any flycatcher of the genus {Terpsiphone}, having the middle tail feathers extremely elongated. The adult male of {T. paradisi} is white, with the head glossy dark green, and crested. {Paradise grackle} (Zo["o]l.), a very beautiful bird of New Guinea, of the genus {Astrapia}, having dark velvety plumage with brilliant metallic tints. {Paradise nut} (Bot.), the sapucaia nut. See {Sapucaia nut}. [Local, U. S.] {Paradise whidah bird}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Whidah}.
\Par"a*dise\, v. t. To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch. [R.] --Marston.

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