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Paradise Definition And Meaning |
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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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