paradise

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  1. noun The Garden of Eden.
  2. noun Christianity The abode of righteous souls after death; heaven.
  3. noun Christianity An intermediate resting place for righteous souls awaiting the Resurrection.
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  • I have had my little glimpse of paradise, which is more than many people have in a lifetime. —  Mary Balogh - The Secret Pearl
  • Room rates at this paradise are always on the budget-busting side but the prices for this deal are a bit less than the regular rack rate. —  HotelChatter -
  • It's reminiscent of a tropical breeze or a paradise island -- two things that always accompany an enjoyable summer, regardless if they're a real or sensory experience. —  AskMen.com - HOME PAGE
  • And for obvious reasons, it is apparently easier to get soldiers and their families to commit to staying for long deployments in Hawaiian paradise than it is to get them to move to Colorado or Alaska! —  LA IMC
  • Swat known as the paradise on earth has been ripped apart by Fazlullah led militants for the last two years causing immense grief to the residents.
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  1. Middle English paradis, from Old French, from Late Latin paradīsus, from Greek paradeisos, garden, enclosed park, paradise, from Avestan pairidaēza-, enclosure, park : pairi-, around; see per1 in Indo-European roots + daēzō, wall; see dheigh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English paradys, paradyce, also parais, from Old French paradis, vernacularly paraϊs, pareϊs, French paradis = Provencal paradis = Spanish Paraίso = Portuguese paraiso = Italian paradiso = Old Saxon paradīs = Dutch paradijs = Middle Low German Paradīs = Old High German paradys, paradīsi, pardīsi, Middle High German paradīse, pardīse, paradīs, baradīs, pardīs, German paradeis, paradies = Icelandic paradīs = Swedish Danish paradis, from Late Latin paradises, a park, orchard, the garden of Eden, the abode of the blessed, from Greek παράδεισος, a park, deer-park, used as an Eastern term in Xenophon and others for the parks of the Persian kings and nobles, in the Septuagint for the garden of Eden, in the N. T. for the abode of the blessed; = Hebrew pardēs = Armen. pardez, a garden, from OPers. pairidaēza, an inclosure, Persian Arabic firdaus, a garden, paradise. The Anglo-Saxon name for paradise was neorxna wang, neorxna wong, Gothic (Moesogothic) waggs. The literally sense (def. 1) is later in English Cf. parvis.
  2. paradise, n.
 

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