paradise
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paradise /ˈparədʌɪs/
▶noun
- 1 (in some religions) heaven as the ultimate abode of the just.
■ (Paradise) the Garden of Eden.
- 2 an ideal or idyllic place or state.
– derivatives
paradisal adjective,
paradisiacal /-dɪˈsʌɪək(ə)l/ (also paradisaical /-dɪˈseɪɪk(ə)l/ or paradisical /-ˈdɪsɪk(ə)l/) adjective.
paradisal adjective,
paradisiacal /-dɪˈsʌɪək(ə)l/ (also paradisaical /-dɪˈseɪɪk(ə)l/ or paradisical /-ˈdɪsɪk(ə)l/) adjective.
– origin ME: from OFr. paradis, via eccles. L. from Gk paradeisos ‘royal (enclosed) park’.
'paradise' also found in these Oxford entries:
Arcadian
- Arcady
- bird of paradise
- Elysian
- fool's paradise
- grains of Paradise
- houri
- malaguetta
- pandemonium
- parvis
- Shangri-La
- strelitzia
- wind
