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paradise
/ˈpɛɹəˌdaɪs/
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What does paradise mean?
noun
- The place where sanctified souls are believed to live after death.
- (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.
More meanings (42)
noun
- (figuratively) A very pleasant experience.
- (slang) The upper gallery in a theatre.
- A cake, often as a paradise slice.
- (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.
verb
- To place (as) in paradise.
- (obsolete) To transform into a paradise.
- (obsolete, rare) To affect or exalt with visions of happiness.
proper noun
- Alternative letter-case form of Paradise (“Heaven”).
- Alternative letter-case form of Paradise (“the Garden of Eden”).
- Heaven.
- 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 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 locality in the Inverell council area, north eastern New South Wales.
- A locality in Kentish council area, northern Tasmania.
- A locality in the Shire of Northern Grampians, central western Victoria.
- A rural locality north of Glenorchy, Otago, New Zealand.
- 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).
- A barangay of Gonzaga, Cagayan, Philippines.
- A barangay of Ramon Magsaysay, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines.
- A barangay of Diplahan, Zamboanga Sibugay, Philippines.
- A barangay of Cabanglasan, Bukidnon, Philippines.
- A barangay of Banisilan, Cotabato, Philippines.
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IPA pronunciation
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Here we have religion and robbery the allies of each other—devils dressed in angels’ robes, and hell presenting the semblance of paradise.
I assured her that no one could be homesick in such a paradise as theirs, but she would have none of it.
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“Why can’t these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women.”
Many great lords have assayed with great will, many times, for to pass by those rivers towards Paradise, with full great companies.
The main creation of the third day was the realm of plants, the terrestrial plants as well as the plants of Paradise.