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paradise

paradise

77 4.0
A perfect, happy place where good people go after death
  • noun
  • /ˈpærəˌdaɪs/
translation icon : paraíso
  • When Columbus landed in the Antilles in 1492, he thought that Paradise lay before him.
  • go to paradise
  • enter paradise
  • expulsion from paradise

We earned this paradise by a death we didn't deserve.

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Examples

  • His crew had no doubt at all that they had found the paradise of the Pacific.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • According to many beliefs, good people go to paradise after they die.

  • This, then, I thought, is what paradise must have been.

  • Only trouble is... the kids had already gone down to paradise ahead of them.

  • And I will see you in paradise.

  • Those who are at peace with God are already in Paradise.

  • The forbidden zone was once a paradise.

  • Adam and Eve were driven from the Garden of Paradise because of that sin.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • I was taken up to paradise and I saw and heard things Inexpressible.

  • And since we had opened the floodgates, it fell upon us to defend paradise from the invaders.

    Fiction book (1998)

Synonyms

heaven
vsparadise
941 1.1

A place many religions believe God lives and good people go after death

is the general religious term for that afterlife dwelling
nirvana
vsparadise
5 7.9

A very peaceful happy state with no worry or pain

refers to a physical afterlife destination reached after death
Elysian Fields
vsparadise
  • Literature
5 9.9

A peaceful, happy place in Greek myth where heroes and good people go after death

is a general religious afterlife term not tied to one mythology
City of God
vsparadise
  • Literature
1 8.3

A holy place where people believe God and the blessed live after death

is the simpler term for being with the divine after death
Holy City
vsparadise
  • Literature
1 8.8

A sacred, perfect place like Heaven where God lives, often in Christian writing

is the general term for the afterlife place rather than city imagery
Eden
vsparadise
1 6.8

A place or state that has great happiness and peace

is specifically the religious afterlife home for good people
Heavenly City
vsparadise
  • Literature
9.6

A perfect, peaceful place often shown as a beautiful city in religious writing

is the broader religious place term rather than a city image
Celestial City
vsparadise
  • Archaic
9.9

A beautiful city in Heaven that good people go to after they die

is the ordinary religious name for that final destination

Antonyms

724 4.4

A religious idea of a place after death where people who do wrong suffer forever

torment
  • NSFW
70 5.6

Great physical or mental pain someone feels

Idioms

6 6.7

A problem in a relationship or situation that looks perfect

Compounds

A very beautiful place where people feel happy and peaceful

bird of paradise
  • Australian
1 6.3

A brightly colored bird from New Guinea with showy feathers and a special mating dance

fool's paradise
  • Informal
1 8.1

A feeling of happiness based on wrong hopes that will not last

A beautiful peaceful place on earth that seems perfect

A tropical plant with bright flowers that look like a bird in flight

Small peppery seeds from a West African plant used as a spice

A tropical plant like a small tree with bright yellow or orange-red flowers

9.8

A medium to large tropical American tree with long clusters of small pale yellow flowers and bright red fruit

Surface Forms

paradise singular
paradises plural

Etymology

Paradise comes from an old Persian word pairidaeza meaning 'walled garden', a private place of beauty. So in religion it became the idea of a perfect place, a 'heaven' where good people go.