Meaning of heaven | Babel Free

Definitions

1. sky
2. The sky, specifically:
   countable, dated, plural-normally, poetic, uncountable
3. The distant sky in which the sun, moon, and stars appear or move; the firmament; the celestial spheres.
   countable, dated, plural-normally, poetic, uncountable
4. The abode of God or the gods, when considered as a specific location; the abode of the blessed departed who reside in the presence of God or the gods
5. The near sky in which weather, flying animals, etc. appear; (obsolete) the atmosphere; the climate.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
6. Providence, the will of God or the gods, when considered as a personal entity or specific aspect of the divine; Fate
7. A model displaying the movement of the celestial bodies, an orrery.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
8. Other extended senses of heaven as a specific place similar to the abode of God, the gods, or the blessed departed
   uncommon
9. The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially:
   capitalized, countable, uncountable, usually
10. The abode of God and of the angels and saints in His presence.
    capitalized, countable, uncountable, usually
11. The sky, particularly its distant aspect as the abode of the sun, moon, and stars
    obsolete
12. The abode of the Abrahamic God; similar abodes of the gods in other religions and traditions, such as Mount Olympus.
    broadly, capitalized, countable, often, uncountable
13. The supreme God or Nature which controls the universe.
    Chinese
14. Providence, the will of God or the council of the gods; fate.
    broadly, capitalized, countable, uncountable, usually
15. A surname originating as a patronymic derived from Evan
    uncommon
16. The afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust (compare hell); specifically
    countable, uncountable
17. A female given name from English of modern usage from the noun heaven.
    rare
18. The afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust (compare hell); specifically:
    countable, uncountable
19. Paradise, the afterlife of the souls who are not sent to a place of punishment or purification such as hell, purgatory, or limbo; the state or condition of being in the presence of God after death.
    countable, uncountable
20. The afterlife of the blessed dead in other religions and traditions, such as the Pure Land or Elysium.
    broadly, capitalized, countable, often, uncountable
21. Any paradise; any blissful place or experience.
    broadly, countable, uncountable
22. A state of bliss; a peaceful ecstasy.
    broadly, countable, uncountable
23. Similarly blissful afterlives, places, or states for particular people, animals, or objects.
    countable, informal, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“All that is vnder the heauen.”

“The ordinaunce...made such a great noyse and thunderyng that it seemed the heaven would have fallen.”

“In ascending orderly vpwardes...The first is the Spheare of the Moone...The seuenth the Spheare of Saturne, The eight the Spheare of the fixed Starres, commonly called the firmament. The ninth is called the second moueable or Christall heauen, The tenth is called the first moueable, and the eleuenth is called the Emperiall heauen, where God and his Angels are said to dwell.”

“What obscured light the heauens did grant.”

“The Heauens...are carried in 24 houres from East to West.”

“God framed alſo the Stars and conſtellations; ſome fixed for the Ornament of Heaven and might, very many in number.”

“The moon's path lies in that belt of the heavens known as the zodiac.”

“In an infinite...universe the stars would collectively outshine the Sun and flood the heavens with light far more intense than is observed.”

“Above is Heaven, Below are Suzhou and Hangzhou”

“Everie...Countrie, by the nature of the place, the climate of the Heaven, and the influence of the starres hath certaine vertues.”

“The qualitie of mercie is not ſtraind, it droppeth as the gentle raine from heauen vpon the place beneath”

“Fellow-believers...fed the birds of heaven with the carcases of pious and reverend Church-men.”

“Euery man cannot, with Archimedes, make a heauen of brasse.”

“And there was a battel in heauen. Michael & his Angels foght againſt the dragon, and the dragon foght & his Angels. But they preuailed not, nether was their place founde anie more in heauen.”

“Conſider firſt that the excommunicated Prelate ſaith... Kings are not immediatly from God, as by any ſpeciall Ordinance ſent from Heaven by the miniſtery of Angels and Prophets, there were but ſome few ſuch, as Moſes, Saul, David, etc.”

“Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.”

“Christ's coming from the heavens has entered into the life of humanity as the Founder of the world to come.”

“With Ioue in heauen, or some where else.”

“As he [Muhammad] was returning, in the fourth Heaven, Moses advised him to goe back to God.”

“Like the Buddhas, they [the Jains] believe that there is a plurality of heavens and hells.”

“The heaven of Siva is in the midst of the eternal snows and glaciers of Keilás, one of the highest and deepest groups of the stupendous summits of Hémaláya.”

“To grasp the Chinese's notion of Heaven, we must look at the contexts in which tian is used... In the Book of Odes (Shi jing 詩經), which includes poems dated between the eleventh and seventh centuries BCE, tian is a place where the Heavenly Thearch resides.”

“[…]he cannot thriue, Vnlesse her prayers, whom heauen delights to heare And loues to grant, repreeue him from the wrath Of greatest Iustice.”

“After that thou shalt haue knowen that the heauens doe rule.”

“[…]The will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven.”

“Heaven commands thine arm To lift the sure-destroying sword!”

“...executing the just judgment of offended Heaven upon cattle-houghers, traitors, and assassins.”

“There's nothing we can do but pray to heaven for good luck.”

“Cosmologists regarded Heaven as a force—composed of qi 氣, which was divided into yin 陰 and yang 陽 aspects—that kept the cosmos moving.”

“I wonder what your idea of heaven would be—A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably be an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze... To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on 9 different floors...”

“Teache the people to gett heuen with fastynge.”

“...what I speake My body shall make good vpon this earth, Or my diuine soule answer it in heauen.”

“Wee haue a great high Priest, that is passed into the heauens.”

“The belief in ascending to Heaven after death became widespread in the Han dynasty.”

“Ile follow thee and make a heauen of hell.”

“England, that was formerly the heaven, would be now the hell for women.”

“The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.”

“Such a shop as that...would be quite a heaven upon earth to me.”

“They thought strikes and hunger marches the quintessence of politics and Soviet Russia heaven on earth.”

“While eating my snack I decided to walk around the house and I saw the hallways change into beautiful valleys and oceans. The television screen appeared on the wall. It was so beautiful that I thought I was in heaven.”

“Husbandes are in heauen...whose wiues scold not.”

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

“He would just stare at me and say, “You are beautiful, you are so beautiful.” I was in heaven hearing this.”

“We're in heaven.”

“She was in heaven — she'd never seen so many stars gathered in one place. She already had her eye on Charlie Dollar. Oh yes, Charlie Dollar might be ancient, but he was still raging hot in a Jack Nicholson kind of way.”

““Because she was modest and beautiful and he thought he was in heaven when she was around?” “Yes, that's what he said.””

“I'd turn it up to 10 and it sounded all distorted and I remember feeling like I was in heaven!”

“Perhaps it has gone to the dog heaven, and is wagging somewhere in glory.”

“His pet name for Easthampton is ‘Goose-heaven’, and he harps upon the idea eternally.”

“One gray beard who found the gates closed shinned up the fifteen foot fence...and dropped into the baseball heaven he was seeking.”

“The Dave Clark 5 deserve a place in Rock & Roll Heaven right along there beside Question Mark & The Mysterians, the Standells, Count Five, the Troggs, and the Music Machine.”

“The building was once a candy factory, which makes it, Frazier says, mouse heaven.”

“Ricky bumps it into the garden, and tells me it is going to ‘the cooker heaven’. ‘Where it will be this size,’ adds his wife, her hands making the size of a brick. She means that it is off to the squasher.”

“Goronwy has gone to goldfish heaven where he is swimming in a beautiful clear blue ocean with all the other fishies.”

“Conſider firſt that the excommunicated Prelate ſaith... Kings are not immediatly from God, as by any ſpeciall Ordinance ſent from Heaven by the miniſtery of Angels and Prophets, there were but ſome few ſuch, as Moſes, Saul, David, etc.”

“Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.”

“Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.”

“To grasp the Chinese's notion of Heaven, we must look at the contexts in which tian is used... In the Book of Odes (Shi jing 詩經), which includes poems dated between the eleventh and seventh centuries BCE, tian is a place where the Heavenly Thearch resides.”

“...but that the will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven Left him at large to his own dark designs,”

“Heaven commands thine arm To lift the sure-destroying sword!”

“...executing the just judgment of offended Heaven upon cattle-houghers, traitors, and assassins.”

“Cosmologists regarded Heaven as a force—composed of qi (氣), which was divided into yin (陰) and yang (陽) aspects—that kept the cosmos moving.”

“The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.”

“Everie...Countrie, by the nature of the place, the climate of the Heaven, and the influence of the starres hath certaine vertues.”

“The Heauens...are carried in 24 houres from East to West.”

“What Heaven has conferred is called the Nature...”

“...‘Heaven’ as we use it throughout the book is only a convenient but inaccurate translation of the Chinese character tian. Heaven in Chinese religions as well as in the Confucian tradition has multidimensional implications... In its metaphysical and physical connotation, Heaven... refers to... Nature. Applied in the spiritual realm, it signifies an anthropomorphic Lord or a Supreme Being who presides in Heaven, and rules over or governs directly the spiritual and material worlds.”

“It was not just the sky, but a god with wills and intentions, seen as sovereign of all... In fact, "Tian" was another reverent term to address the supreme god: "Heaven, for the help of the inferior people, made for them rulers, and made for them instructors" ("Great Declaration I" in the Book of History)...”

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