heaven

/ˈhɛvən/

noun 17
verb 3
adjective 1
forms 6
phrases 5

noun17

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the place where God or the gods live, together with the dead who were good in life
- Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n. — 1667
The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky.
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The abode of God and of the angels and saints in His presence.
- And there was a battel in heauen. Michael & his Angels foght against the dragon, and the dragon foght & his Angels. But they preuailed not, nether was their place founde anie more in heauen. — 1560
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The abode of the Abrahamic God; similar abodes of the gods in other religions and traditions, such as Mount Olympus.
- With Ioue in heauen, or some where else. — 1588
The afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust (compare hell).
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Paradise, the afterlife of the souls who are not sent to a place of punishment or purification such as hell, purgatory, or limbo; the state or condition of being in the presence of God after death.
- Teache the people to gett heuen with fastynge. — 1544
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The afterlife of the blessed dead in other religions and traditions, such as the Pure Land or Elysium.
- The belief in ascending to Heaven after death became widespread in the Han dynasty. — 2011
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Any paradise; any blissful place or experience.
- Ile follow thee and make a heauen of hell. — 1595
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A state of bliss; a peaceful ecstasy.
- Husbandes are in heauen...whose wiues scold not. — 1550
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(informal) Similarly blissful afterlives, places, or states for particular people, animals, or objects.
- Perhaps it has gone to the dog heaven, and is wagging somewhere in glory. — 1867
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Providence, the will of God or the gods, when considered as a personal entity or specific aspect of the divine; Fate
- ...but that the will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven Left him at large to his own dark designs, — 1667
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Providence, the will of God or the council of the gods; fate.
- […]he cannot thriue, Vnlesse her prayers, whom heauen delights to heare And loues to grant, repreeue him from the wrath Of greatest Iustice. — 1604
The sky.
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[usually plural] (literary, old-fashioned) The distant sky in which the sun, moon, and stars appear or move; the firmament; the celestial spheres.
- All that is vnder the heauen. — 1535
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(no longer used) The near sky in which weather, flying animals, etc. appear; (obsolete) the atmosphere; the climate.
- Everie...Countrie, by the nature of the place, the climate of the Heaven, and the influence of the starres hath certaine vertues. — 1581
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(no longer used) The sky, particularly its distant aspect as the abode of the sun, moon, and stars
- Everie...Countrie, by the nature of the place, the climate of the Heaven, and the influence of the starres hath certaine vertues. — 1581
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(no longer used) A model displaying the movement of the celestial bodies, an orrery.
- Euery man cannot, with Archimedes, make a heauen of brasse. — 1600

verb3

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(no longer used) To beatify, enchant, or please greatly.
- They [Byron's Tales]...enraptured the public and heavened Murray. — 1924
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(no longer used) To transport to the abode of God, the gods, or the blessed.
- He heauens himselfe on earth, & for a litle pelfe cousens himselfe of blisse. — 1614
(no longer used) To beautify, to make into a paradise.

adjective1

(no longer used) Being heavenly.

forms

heavened · heavening · heavens · heavenes · more heaven · most heaven

Phrases with heaven