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Definition paradise

Etymology

Middle English paradise, from Old French paradis or Middle French paradis, from Latin parad?sus, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (parádeisos), ultimately from Avestan ???????????‎ (pairi da?za, “enclosure”). Cognate with Arabic ?????????‎ (firdaws), an Iranian borrowing.

Noun

paradise (countable and uncountable, plural paradises)

1. (chiefly religion) The place where sanctified souls are believed to live after death.
2. (Abrahamic religions) A garden where Adam and Eve first lived after being created.
3. (figuratively) A very pleasant place; a place full of lush vegetation.
4. (figuratively) A very pleasant experience.
5. (architecture, obsolete) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, such as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.
6. (obsolete) A churchyard or cemetery.
7. (slang) The upper gallery in a theatre.

Verb

paradise (third-person singular simple present paradises, present participle paradising, simple past and past participle paradised)

1. To place (as) in paradise.
2. (obsolete) To transform into a paradise.
3. (obsolete, rare) To affect or exalt with visions of happiness.

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