heaven
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
heaven/ˈhevn/
▶noun
- 1 (often Heaven) a place regarded in various religions as the abode of God or the gods and of the good after death, often depicted as being above the sky.
- 2 (the heavens) literary the sky.
- 3 a place or state of supreme bliss.
- 4 (also heavens) used in exclamations as a substitute for ‘God’: heaven knows!
– phrases
the heavens open it suddenly starts to rain very heavily.
in seventh heaven in a state of ecstasy.
move heaven and earth to do something make extraordinary efforts to do a specified thing.
stink (or smell) to high heaven informal smell very bad.
the heavens open it suddenly starts to rain very heavily.
in seventh heaven in a state of ecstasy.
move heaven and earth to do something make extraordinary efforts to do a specified thing.
stink (or smell) to high heaven informal smell very bad.
– derivatives
heavenward adjective & adverb,
heavenwards adverb.
heavenward adjective & adverb,
heavenwards adverb.
– origin OE heofon, of Gmc origin.
'heaven' also found in these Oxford entries:
ailanthus
- ascension
- assumption
- celestial
- church
- empyrean
- fallen angel
- forbid
- forfend
- glory
- God
- heavenly
- heaven-sent
- high
- Holy City
- Jacob's ladder
- kingdom
- know
- mercy seat
- other
- paradise
- Pearly Gates
- Pelion
- penny
- purgatory
- rapture
- saint
- sky
- termagant
- tree of heaven
- upper regions
- welkin
- yang
- Zion
