Sekirov Dictionary

paradise

/ˈpæɹədaɪs/

noun 10
verb 3
forms 3
phrases 3

noun10

Heaven.
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(figurative) a very lovely place to be in, often one with many trees and flowers
- Let me live here ever; So rare a wonder’d father and a wife Makes this place Paradise. — 1610
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(figurative) An ideal place for a specified type of person, activity, etc.
- And at this point, also, begins the pilot’s paradise: a wide river hence to New Orleans, abundance of water from shore to shore, and no bars, snags, sawyers, or wrecks in his road. — 1883
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The place where sanctified souls are believed to live after death.
- Living in paradise comes with a price.
The Garden of Eden.
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(figurative) A very pleasant experience.
- The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death. — 1603
A cake, often as a paradise slice.
(slang) The upper gallery in a theatre.
(no longer used) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, such as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.
(no longer used) A churchyard or cemetery.

verb3

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To place (as) in paradise.
- Man himselfe […] euen then, when hee was first paradis’d in the Garden of pleasure, yet had something to doe in it, and was not suffered to walke idlely vp & downe like a Loyterer […] — 1623
(no longer used, rare) To affect or exalt with visions of happiness.
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(no longer used) To transform into a paradise.
- She enters with a sweet commanding grace, Her very presence paradic’d the place: — 1613

forms

paradised · paradising · paradises

Phrases with paradise

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