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Definition of paradise :
1. A churchyard or cemetery.
2. A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight; hence, a state of happiness.
3. An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.
4. The abode of sanctified souls after death.
5. The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed after their creation.
6. To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.
Synonyms:
Elysium, enlightenment, Valhalla, rapture, Hades, elation, high ground, peace, exhilaration, Camelot, cloud nine, undecided, transport, infernal, harmony, above, calm, intoxication, elysian fields, the hereafter, the next life, the (great) beyond, unique, empyrean, freedom, never-never land, Kingdom Come, luxury, sky, By-and-By, Hell, the good life, Arcadia, afterlife, swoon, happy, fantasyland, comfort, privilege, seventh heaven, New Jerusalem, elatedness, circumstantial, situated, Cockaigne, be better/worse off, effectively, fateful, euphoria, lotusland, effective, utopia, Promised Land, face to face, high
heaven (part of speech: noun)
immortality, mountaintop, acme, nirvana, heaven, wonderland, ether, Eden, azure, fairyland, joyfulness, everlastingness, goshen, happiness, stratosphere, shangri-la, glory, culmination, Zion, zenith, eternity, afterworld, summit, apex, Canaan, bliss, spire, hereafter, rhapsody, ecstasy, dreamland, land o'goshen, climax, pinnacle
Usage examples:
- You have scarcely entered your paradise, fair peri." - "Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter", Lawrence L. Lynch.
- Upon my conscience, it's more like Paradise than anything else. - "Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2)", Charles Lever.
- They believed that " Paradise is under the shadow of the sword." - "History Of Egypt From 330 B.C. To The Present Time, Volume 12 (of 12)", S. Rappoport.