paradise
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- noun
- /ˈpærəˌdaɪs/
- When Columbus landed in the Antilles in 1492, he thought that Paradise lay before him.
- go to paradise
- enter paradise
- expulsion from paradise
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Watch on YouTubeWe earned this paradise by a death we didn't deserve.
- We earned this paradise by a death we didn't deserve.
- The afterlife is supposed to be for for paradise or for heaven.
- I was taken up to paradise and I saw and heard things Inexpressible.
- So there's some sort of heavenly reward, whether it be a better reincarnation or paradise or avoiding hell or who knows what it's going to be.
- And now kind of the one that keeps all the sons in check is now gone, male or Granite and Jenna Grand in paradise.
- You can but salvation here and now, not like you live some afterlife where you're, you know, paradise for eternity.
Examples
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His crew had no doubt at all that they had found the paradise of the Pacific.
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According to many beliefs, good people go to paradise after they die.
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This, then, I thought, is what paradise must have been.
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Only trouble is... the kids had already gone down to paradise ahead of them.
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And I will see you in paradise.
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Those who are at peace with God are already in Paradise.
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The forbidden zone was once a paradise.
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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.
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And since we had opened the floodgates, it fell upon us to defend paradise from the invaders.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
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A place many religions believe God lives and good people go after death
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A place or state that has great happiness and peace
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A very peaceful happy state with no worry or pain
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A peaceful, happy place in Greek myth where heroes and good people go after death
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A holy place where people believe God and the blessed live after death
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A sacred, perfect place like Heaven where God lives, often in Christian writing
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A perfect, peaceful place often shown as a beautiful city in religious writing
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A beautiful city in Heaven that good people go to after they die
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Australian
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A brightly colored bird from New Guinea with showy feathers and a special mating dance
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A tropical plant like a small tree with bright yellow or orange-red flowers
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A medium to large tropical American tree with long clusters of small pale yellow flowers and bright red fruit
Surface Forms
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.