paradise
IPA: pˈɛrʌdaɪs
noun
- (chiefly religion) The place where sanctified souls are believed to live after death.
- (Abrahamic religions) A garden where Adam and Eve first lived after being created.
- (figuratively) A very pleasant place, such as a place full of lush vegetation.
- (figuratively) An ideal place for a specified type of person, activity, etc.
- (figuratively) A very pleasant experience.
- (architecture, obsolete) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, such as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.
- (obsolete) A churchyard or cemetery.
- (slang) The upper gallery in a theatre.
- A cake, often as a paradise slice.
- (religion) Heaven.
- (religion) The Garden of Eden.
- A town in Grenada.
- A village in Suriname.
- A settlement on the island of Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A ghost town in Cochise County, Arizona.
- A town in Butte County, California.
- A census-designated place in Mono County, California.
- A city in Kansas.
- A census-designated place in Montana.
- An unincorporated town and census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada.
- A township and census-designated place therein, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
- A city in Texas.
- A town in Utah.
- A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Paradise Township.
- A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
- A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
- A rural locality north of Glenorchy, Otago, New Zealand.
- A number of places in England:
- A hamlet in Askam and Ireleth parish, Barrow-in-Furness district, Cumbria (OS grid ref SD2278).
- A hamlet in Painswick parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO8611).
- A suburb of Hemel Hempstead, Dacorum district, Hertfordshire (OS grid ref TL0506).
- A small riverside suburb in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear (OS grid ref NZ2163).
- A neighbourhood in central Birmingham, West Midlands (OS grid ref SP0686).
- A northern suburb of Coventry, West Midlands (OS grid ref SP3481).
verb
- To place (as) in paradise.
- (obsolete) To transform into a paradise.
- (obsolete, rare) To affect or exalt with visions of happiness.
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Examples of "paradise" in Sentences
- It is paradise for the busybody and the nark.
- The couple went into the gardens of Paradise.
- In the poem, she awaits the poet in Paradise.
- The beach in the bay was once nudist paradise.
- 'The Earthly Paradise and the Renaissance Epic'.
- The people wanted to enter the gate of paradise.
- The end of the teachings of Jesus was heavenly paradise.
- Also in the programme, northern Italy is a gastronome's paradise.
- Paradise is purchased by the bachelors at the expense of the maids.
- It is a paradise, propitious for national and international tourism.