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Paradise   /pˈɛrədˌaɪs/   Listen
noun
Paradise  n.  
1.
The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed after their creation.
2.
The abode of sanctified souls after death. "To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise." "It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise."
3.
A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight; hence, a state of happiness. "The earth Shall be all paradise." "Wrapt in the very paradise of some creative vision."
4.
(Arch.) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.
5.
A churchyard or cemetery. (Obs.)
Fool's paradise. See under Fool, and Limbo.
Grains of paradise. (Bot.) See Melequeta pepper, under Pepper.
Paradise bird. (Zool.) Same as Bird of paradise. Among the most beautiful species are the superb (Lophorina superba); the magnificent (Diphyllodes magnifica); and the six-shafted paradise bird (Parotia sefilata). The long-billed paradise birds (Epimachinae) also include some highly ornamental species, as the twelve-wired paradise bird (Seleucides alba), which is black, yellow, and white, with six long breast feathers on each side, ending in long, slender filaments. See Bird of paradise in the Vocabulary.
Paradise fish (Zool.), a beautiful fresh-water Asiatic fish (Macropodus viridiauratus) having very large fins. It is often kept alive as an ornamental fish.
Paradise flycatcher (Zool.), any flycatcher of the genus Terpsiphone, having the middle tail feathers extremely elongated. The adult male of Terpsiphone paradisi is white, with the head glossy dark green, and crested.
Paradise grackle (Zool.), a very beautiful bird of New Guinea, of the genus Astrapia, having dark velvety plumage with brilliant metallic tints.
Paradise nut (Bot.), the sapucaia nut. See Sapucaia nut. (Local, U. S.)
Paradise whidah bird. (Zool.) See Whidah.


verb
Paradise  v. t.  To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch. (R.)





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"Paradise" Quotes from Famous Books



... could say, "I beheld the Lord sitting on a throne high and lifted up"; Paul not the only one who should be privileged with rapture to the third heaven; George Fox not the only one to whom it was given to say, "I was come up, through the naming sword, into the Paradise of God." Many there are who have known "the Most High God no vision, nor ...
— Memoranda Sacra • J. Rendel Harris
... so sorry the living was sold," said Mary; "Katie and her husband would have made Englebourn into a little paradise." ...
— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes
... think meanly of himself. Any one who gives his life for another will be met in Paradise by all the heralds and angels of the Lord God. And you have no such cause to hang your head. For . . . Pray, do you think me beautiful?" she asked, with a ...
— New Arabian Nights • Robert Louis Stevenson
... reckon," said Mike, who was just meditating over his last draught, and his consequent departure from this bibacious paradise. ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby
... girl, with her thoughtful eyes, Who stood where the "brook and the river meet," Stole softly away into Paradise E'er "the river" had reached her slender feet. While the father's eyes on the graves were bent, The mother looked upward beyond the skies: "Our treasures," she whispered, "were only lent; Our darlings were ...
— Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two • Various


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