Meaning of bliss | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An English surname transferred from the nickname originating as a nickname.
2. luck
3. Perfect happiness.
   countable, uncountable
4. A unisex given name from English.
   rare
5. a programming language used for systems programming primarily on computers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation. Bliss is a parallel language to C, both being derived from B and BCPL
6. feminine singular of dicho
7. A place in the United States:
8. A ghost town in California.
9. A minor city in Gooding County, Idaho.
10. An unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky.
11. A township in Emmet County, Michigan, named after Aaron T. Bliss.
12. An unincorporated community in Washington County, Missouri.
13. A census-designated place in the town of Eagle, Wyoming County, New York.
14. Former name of Old Bliss, Oklahoma.

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Examples

“The afternoon at the spa was utter bliss.”

“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, / But to be young was very heaven!”

“What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss—absolute bliss!—as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle, into every finger and toe?”

“When they insist on knowing my bliss I tell them this When they want to know what the reason is I only smile when I lie, then I tell them why”

“So who is this saying that money is bliss? Your logic remiss You and the devil about to kiss”

“"Mother doesn't seem to especially like her little granddaughter as it is, even named 'Edna Louise'. D'you think she's going to like her better, named 'Bliss' like some sexpot pop star or some Indian-mystic asshole-charlatan?" Betsey winced. "Bliss" was a beautiful name!”

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