26984 words

paradise

5 definitions • 6 examples
1
a place or condition of great happiness where everything is exactly as you would like it to be:

Examples:

a tropical paradise
His idea of paradise is to spend the day lying on the beach.
This mall is a shopper's paradise.
2

Examples:

They believe they'll go to Paradise after they die.
3
the garden of Eden (= the place where Adam and Eve lived, in the Bible story)
4
a place or condition of great happiness where everything is exactly as you would like it to be:

Examples:

His idea of paradise is to spend the day sailing.
infml This place is a shopper’s/children’s/pickpocket’s paradise (= a place where the conditions are exactly right for them).
5
Paradise is another word for heaven.

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