Paradise

/ˈpæɹ.ə.daɪs/ name, noun, verb, slang

name, noun, verb, slang ·Very common ·Middle school level

Meaning at a glance

  • Primary sense: The place where sanctified souls are believed to live after death.
  • Grammar: paradise is listed as name, noun, verb, slang.
  • Nearest alternatives: eden, heaven, nirvana, shangri-la.
  • Useful contrasts: armpit, cesspit, desert.
  • Usage evidence: Hawaii is known as an earthly paradise.

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The place where sanctified souls are believed to live after death. countable, uncountable

    "Living in paradise comes with a price."

  2. 2
    (Christianity) the abode of righteous souls after death wordnet
  3. 3
    A garden where Adam and Eve first lived after being created. countable, uncountable

    "Not that Adam that kept the Paradise but that Adam that keeps the prison:"

  4. 4
    any place of complete bliss and delight and peace wordnet
  5. 5
    A very pleasant place, such as a place full of lush vegetation. countable, figuratively, uncountable

    "an island paradise in the Caribbean"

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  1. 6
    An ideal place for a specified type of person, activity, etc. countable, figuratively, uncountable

    "a shoppers’ paradise"

  2. 7
    A very pleasant experience. countable, figuratively, uncountable

    "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."

  3. 8
    An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, such as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc. countable, obsolete, uncountable
  4. 9
    A churchyard or cemetery. countable, obsolete, uncountable
  5. 10
    The upper gallery in a theatre. countable, slang, uncountable
  6. 11
    A cake, often as a paradise slice. countable, uncountable

    "She was learned in decocting all kinds of herb-tea, infallible in curing burns, sprains, and scalds; and not a few pennyworths of gingerbread and paradise (for the latter she was very famous) went among her young customers, for which the till was never the richer."

Verb
  1. 1
    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 […]"

  2. 2
    To transform into a paradise. obsolete

    "[…] come all the daintieſt dainties of this toungue, and doe homage to your verticall ſtarre, that hath all the ſoveraine influences of the eloquent and learned conſtellations at a becke, and paradiſeth the earth with the ambroſiall dewes of his incomprehenſible witt!"

  3. 3
    To affect or exalt with visions of happiness. obsolete, rare

    "1606, John Marston, Parasitaster, or The Fawn, London: W. Cotton, Act IV,#*: O we had first some long fortunate greate Politicians that were so sottishlie paradized as to thinke when popular hate seconded Princes displeasure to them, any vnmerited violence could seeme to the world iniustice,"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Heaven.
  2. 2
    The Garden of Eden.
  3. 3
    A town in Grenada.
  4. 4
    A village in Suriname.
  5. 5
    A settlement on the island of Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States:; A ghost town in Cochise County, Arizona.
  2. 7
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Butte County, California.
  3. 8
    A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Mono County, California.
  4. 9
    A number of places in the United States:; A city in Kansas.
  5. 10
    A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Montana.
  6. 11
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated town and census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada.
  7. 12
    A number of places in the United States:; A township and census-designated place therein, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
  8. 13
    A number of places in the United States:; A city in Texas.
  9. 14
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Utah.
  10. 15
    A number of places in the United States:; A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Paradise Township.
  11. 16
    A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
  12. 17
    A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
  13. 18
    A number of places in Australia:; A locality in the Inverell council area, north eastern New South Wales.
  14. 19
    A number of places in Australia:; A locality in Kentish council area, northern Tasmania.
  15. 20
    A number of places in Australia:; A locality in the Shire of Northern Grampians, central western Victoria.
  16. 21
    A rural locality north of Glenorchy, Otago, New Zealand.
  17. 22
    A number of places in England:; A hamlet in Askam and Ireleth parish, Barrow-in-Furness district, Cumbria (OS grid ref SD2278).
  18. 23
    A number of places in England:; A hamlet in Painswick parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO8611).
  19. 24
    A number of places in England:; A suburb of Hemel Hempstead, Dacorum district, Hertfordshire (OS grid ref TL0506).
  20. 25
    A number of places in England:; A small riverside suburb in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear (OS grid ref NZ2163).
  21. 26
    A number of places in England:; A neighbourhood in central Birmingham, West Midlands (OS grid ref SP0686).
  22. 27
    A number of places in England:; A northern suburb of Coventry, West Midlands (OS grid ref SP3481).
  23. 28
    A number of places in the Philippines:; A barangay of Gonzaga, Cagayan, Philippines.
  24. 29
    A number of places in the Philippines:; A barangay of Ramon Magsaysay, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines.
  25. 30
    A number of places in the Philippines:; A barangay of Diplahan, Zamboanga Sibugay, Philippines.
  26. 31
    A number of places in the Philippines:; A barangay of Cabanglasan, Bukidnon, Philippines.
  27. 32
    A number of places in the Philippines:; A barangay of Banisilan, Cotabato, Philippines.

Synonyms

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edenheavennirvanashangri-lautopiaa better place

Example

"Hawaii is known as an earthly paradise."

Common questions

What does "paradise" mean?

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

What is a synonym for "paradise"?

Common synonyms include: eden, heaven, nirvana, shangri-la, utopia, a better place.

How do you use "paradise" in a sentence?

Hawaii is known as an earthly paradise.

How do you pronounce "paradise"?

Pronounced /ˈpæɹ.ə.daɪs/.

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

From paradise. The town in Newfoundland is named after Houmet Paradis near Guernsey.

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