Meaning of Paradise | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Heaven
2. The place where sanctified souls are believed to live after death.
   countable, uncountable
3. Heaven.
4. The Garden of Eden
5. A garden where Adam and Eve first lived after being created.
   countable, uncountable
6. The Garden of Eden.
7. A town in Grenada
8. A very pleasant place, such as a place full of lush vegetation.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
9. A town in Grenada.
10. A village in Suriname
11. A village in Suriname.
12. An ideal place for a specified type of person, activity, etc.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
13. A very pleasant experience.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
14. A settlement on the island of Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands
15. A settlement on the island of Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.
16. An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, such as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
17. A number of places in the United States:
18. A ghost town in Cochise County, Arizona.
19. A churchyard or cemetery.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
20. A town in Butte County, California.
21. The upper gallery in a theatre.
    countable, slang, uncountable
22. A census-designated place in Mono County, California.
23. A city in Kansas.
24. A cake, often as a paradise slice.
    countable, uncountable
25. A census-designated place in Montana.
26. An unincorporated town and census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada.
27. A township and census-designated place therein, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
28. A city in Texas.
29. A town in Utah.
30. A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Paradise Township.
31. A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
32. A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
33. A number of places in Australia:
34. A locality in the Inverell council area, north eastern New South Wales.
35. A locality in Kentish council area, northern Tasmania.
36. A locality in the Shire of Northern Grampians, central western Victoria.
37. A rural locality north of Glenorchy, Otago, New Zealand.
38. A number of places in England:
39. A hamlet in Askam and Ireleth parish, Barrow-in-Furness district, Cumbria (OS grid ref SD2278).
40. A hamlet in Painswick parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO8611).
41. A suburb of Hemel Hempstead, Dacorum district, Hertfordshire (OS grid ref TL0506).
42. A small riverside suburb in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear (OS grid ref NZ2163).
43. A neighbourhood in central Birmingham, West Midlands (OS grid ref SP0686).
44. A northern suburb of Coventry, West Midlands (OS grid ref SP3481).
45. A number of places in the Philippines:
46. A barangay of Gonzaga, Cagayan, Philippines.
47. A barangay of Ramon Magsaysay, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines.
48. A barangay of Diplahan, Zamboanga Sibugay, Philippines.
49. A barangay of Cabanglasan, Bukidnon, Philippines.
50. A barangay of Banisilan, Cotabato, Philippines.

Equivalents

Examples

“Living in paradise comes with a price.”

“And Jesus said unto him [the malefactor], Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.”

“This employment I considered as the only satisfaction I could offer to the memory of your unfortunate mother, and I flatter myself that if she could look down, it would give her angelic mind pleasure even in paradise, to behold me instilling into the minds of her children, sentiments congenial with her own.”

“The imagination of the Hindoo paints his Swergas as "profuse of bliss," and all the joys of sense are collected in the Paradise of the Mussulman.”

“He hears his daughter's voice, / Singing in the village choir, / And it makes his heart rejoice. / It sounds to him like her mother's voice, / Singing in Paradise!”

“I believe the soul in Paradise must enjoy something nearer to a perpetual adulthood than to any other state we know.”

“Kruban is a tidally-locked Venusian hothouse, its surface perpetually obscured by clouds of sulfur and carbon dioxides. The first group of krogan brought into orbit by the salarian uplift teams requested a trip to Kruban. The salarians at first thought the krogan were confused about the nature of Kruban's environment; the planet is named for a krogan mythological paradise in which honorable warriors feast on the internal organs of their enemies. In fact, krogan astronomers had correctly deduced the nature of Kruban in the years before the global holocaust.”

“Not that Adam that kept the Paradise but that Adam that keeps the prison:”

“Up into Heav’n from Paradise in hast Th’ Angelic Guards ascended,”

“Government like dress is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.”

“If all was good and fair we met, ⁠This earth had been the Paradise ⁠It never look’d to human eyes Since Adam left his garden yet.”

“I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise.”

“an island paradise in the Caribbean”

“Let me live here ever; So rare a wonder’d father and a wife Makes this place Paradise.”

“The reader cannot but judge of the irksomeness of this situation to a mind like mine, in being daily exposed to new hardships and impositions, after having seen many better days, and been as it were, in a state of freedom and plenty; added to which, every part of the world I had hitherto been in, seemed to me a paradise in comparison of the West Indies.”

““Each household will have to have a tap with water running out of it all the year round,” he said. “And not only palm trees, but fruit trees too and flower gardens. It won’t take so many years to turn Golema Mmidi into a paradise. […]””

“On Earth, there is no poverty, no crime, no war. You look out the window of Starfleet Headquarters and you see paradise. Well, it's easy to be a saint in paradise, but the Maquis do not live in paradise.”

“a shoppers’ paradise”

“And at this point, also, begins the pilot’s paradise: a wide river hence to New Orleans, abundance of water from shore to shore, and no bars, snags, sawyers, or wrecks in his road.”

“But the idea that Singapore is a deregulated paradise is not borne out by reality, as anyone who has tried to dispose of a piece of used chewing gum there will know.”

“The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death.”

“[…] sitting by him, roused from the nightmare of parting—called to the paradise of union—I thought only of the bliss given me to drink in so abundant a flow.”

“He poured the last of the wine as Fanny, her face composed as she stroked his leg, after a paradise of expectation touched his aroused organ.”

“She was learned in decocting all kinds of herb-tea, infallible in curing burns, sprains, and scalds; and not a few pennyworths of gingerbread and paradise (for the latter she was very famous) went among her young customers, for which the till was never the richer.”

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