earthly paradise
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5.8
- noun
- /ˈɜrθli ˈpærəˌdaɪs/
:
paraíso terrenal
- The lush garden, filled with blooming flowers and singing birds, felt like an earthly paradise.
- earthly paradise in America
Examples
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For many, the beach is an earthly paradise where they can relax and enjoy the sun.
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In her dreams, she often visited an earthly paradise where happiness and beauty reigned supreme.
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How long was he in the earthly paradise before he fell?
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Jehovah wanted us to live forever in an earthly paradise.
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The valley of Sogdiana is one of the four earthly paradises.
Fiction book (1994) -
We simply watched him leave, and I found myself wondering what got rabble like us to this place billed as an earthly paradise.
Fiction book (1996) -
In its general outlines, the Irish image of America as an earthly paradise was both non-sectarian and of very long duration.
Academic text (1990) -
In fact, later in the account, after Owen has witnessed scene after scene of purgatorial torture, he enters the earthly paradise that Adam and Eve inhabited before the Fall.
Academic text (2008) -
The wistful Puritan is probably the only soul who can be so romantic and precise at the same time when contemplating or partaking in the earthly paradise.
Academic text (2009) -
Certainly, letters such as these might readily induce other, equally impoverished Irishmen and women to believe that America was an earthly paradise, with abundant riches easily available.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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4.0
A place or state of perfect happiness and peace
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5.0
A place full of beauty and magic that feels like a dream
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5.1
A perfect, untouched garden in the Bible where the first humans lived and a way to say an unspoiled place
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7.9
An imagined perfect place where people live together happily
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4.2
A very beautiful place where people feel happy and peaceful
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6.8
A place or state that has great happiness and peace
Antonyms
How Ideal
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a place on earth that is ideal and perfect' is directly derivable from combining 'earthly' (pertaining to the material/earthly world) with 'paradise' (a place/state of bliss). This is a straightforward compositional phrase with clear cross-linguistic equivalents (e.g., 'paraíso terrenal'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Earthly paradise comes from the clear picture of a perfect garden on earth: earthly means 'on earth' and paradise brings to mind the lovely Garden of Eden where everything is peaceful and beautiful. So, it means 'a perfect, beautiful place'.