Paradise
['pærədaɪs] or ['pærə'daɪs]
Definition
(noun.) (Christianity) the abode of righteous souls after death.
Checker: Marge--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed after their creation.
(n.) The abode of sanctified souls after death.
(n.) A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight; hence, a state of happiness.
(n.) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.
(n.) A churchyard or cemetery.
(v. t.) To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.
Checker: Victoria
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Eden, the garden of Eden.[2]. Heaven, Elysium, abode of the blessed, place of bliss.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Heaven, bliss, ecstasy, Eden, Elysium
ANT:Purgatory, hell, misery, torture
Typist: Robinson
Definition
n. a park or pleasure-ground esp. in ancient Persia: the garden of Eden: heaven: any place of great beauty or state of blissful delights: the happy abode of the righteous in heaven: (slang) the upper gallery in a theatre: (archit.) a small private apartment a court in front of a church.—adjs. Paradisā′ic -al Paradis′iac -al pertaining to or resembling paradise.—n. Par′adise-fish a Chinese species of Macropid often kept in aquaria for its beauty of form and colouring.—adjs. Paradis′ial Paradis′ian pertaining to suitable to or resembling paradise; Paradis′ic -al pertaining to paradise.—Bird Of Paradise an Eastern bird closely allied to the crow with splendid plumage.
Checker: Rowena
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are in Paradise, means loyal friends, who are willing to aid you. This dream holds out bright hopes to sailors or those about to make a long voyage. To mothers, this means fair and obedient children. If you are sick and unfortunate, you will have a speedy recovery and your fortune will ripen. To lovers, it is the promise of wealth and faithfulness. To dream that you start to Paradise and find yourself bewildered and lost, you will undertake enterprises which look exceedingly feasible and full of fortunate returns, but which will prove disappointing and vexatious.
Editor: Madge
Examples
- There he did very well, but something went wrong (as it always does to a nomad), so he went to the Transvaal, and ran a panorama called 'Paradise Lost' in the Kaffir kraals. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The Moslem ranks were full of believers before whom shone victory or paradise. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I always expect her to sheer off to Damascus or San Francisco; she's a bird of paradise. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Adam kept Eve in the indestructible paradise, when he kept her single with himself, like a star in its orbit. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They painted Virgins enough, and popes enough and saintly scarecrows enough, to people Paradise, almost, and these things are all they did paint. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbors! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It must be a paradise for cripples, for verily a man has no use for legs here. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In the midst of this profound darkness, there seemed to glow on her heart the effulgence of a paradise unknown and unrealised. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This Gowan when he had talked about a Paradise, had gone up to her and taken her hand. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Barring the proximity of the village, it is a sort of paradise. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The gardens are hidden by high mud-walls, and the paradise is become a very sink of pollution and uncomeliness. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Ah, you see my paradise has got its Eve. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I was alive with a life of Paradise, as she turned _her_ glance from _my_ glance, and softly averted her head to hide the suffusion of her cheek. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The mere flow of animal spirits was Paradise, and at night's close I only desired a renewal of the intoxicating delusion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- You can put this Paradise at the beginning of the world or the end of it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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