paradise

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The Garden of Eden.
2. n. Christianity The abode of righteous souls after death; heaven.
3. n. Christianity An intermediate resting place for righteous souls awaiting the Resurrection.
4. n. A place of ideal beauty or loveliness.
5. n. A state of delight.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A park or pleasure-ground connected with the residence of an Oriental prince; a garden.
2. n. The garden of Eden.
3. n. In theology: That part of the place of departed spirits where the souls of the righteous are by some believed to await the resurrection.
4. n. Sometimes, heaven, or the final abode of the blessed.
5. n. Hence A place of extreme beauty or delight; a region of supreme felicity or bliss.
6. n. In medieval architecture: A small private apartment or study.
7. n. A court or inclosed area in front of a church.
8. n. The upper gallery in a play-house; the place of the “gallery gods.”
9. n. In horticulture, a dwarf apple-tree, used as a stock on which to graft other varieties for the purpose of keeping the tree small in size. There are several forms or varieties of paradise apple, most of them of unknown and early origin. They are small-stature forms of the common apple, Pyrus Malus.
10. To make a paradise of.
11. To put into paradise; fill with supreme felicity.

Wiktionary

1. n. Heaven.
2. n. figuratively A very pleasant place.
3. n. figuratively A very positive experience.
4. v. To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed after their creation.
2. n. The abode of sanctified souls after death.
3. n. A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight; hence, a state of happiness.
4. n. (Arch.) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.
5. n. obsolete A churchyard or cemetery.
6. v. rare To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. (Christianity) the abode of righteous souls after death
2. n. any place of complete bliss and delight and peace