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PARADISE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Christianity) the abode of righteous souls after death
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Paradise" is a kind of...):
Heaven (the abode of God and the angels)
Domain category:
Christian religion; Christianity (a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior)
Derivation:
paradisal; paradisiacal (relating to or befitting Paradise)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
Synonyms:
Eden; heaven; nirvana; paradise; promised land; Shangri-la
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("paradise" is a kind of...):
part; region (the extended spatial location of something)
Derivation:
paradisal; paradisiacal (relating to or befitting Paradise)
Context examples:
I endeavoured to crush these fears and to fortify myself for the trial which in a few months I resolved to undergo; and sometimes I allowed my thoughts, unchecked by reason, to ramble in the fields of Paradise, and dared to fancy amiable and lovely creatures sympathising with my feelings and cheering my gloom; their angelic countenances breathed smiles of consolation.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
In those days, climbing up the iron ladders out the pit of stifling heat, he had often caught glimpses of the passengers, in cool white, doing nothing but enjoy themselves, under awnings spread to keep the sun and wind away from them, with subservient stewards taking care of their every want and whim, and it had seemed to him that the realm in which they moved and had their being was nothing else than paradise.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
And if I had loved him less I should have thought his accent and look of exultation savage; but, 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.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
John should find home a paradise, he should always see a smiling face, should fare sumptuously every day, and never know the loss of a button.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
If it should chance, he said, that through the surpassing merits of the blessed Paul your sin-stained soul should gain a way into paradise, I trust that you will not forget that intercession which you have promised.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I also became a poet and for one year lived in a paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Well, here he was, the great man on board, in the midmost centre of it, sitting at the captain's right hand, and yet vainly harking back to forecastle and stoke-hole in quest of the Paradise he had lost.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
St. John, no doubt, would have given the world to follow, recall, retain her, when she thus left him; but he would not give one chance of heaven, nor relinquish, for the elysium of her love, one hope of the true, eternal Paradise.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Josy-phine! and she had to leave her paradise to wind yarn, wash the poodle, or read Belsham's Essays by the hour together.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
This state of things should have been to me a paradise of peace, accustomed as I was to a life of ceaseless reprimand and thankless fagging; but, in fact, my racked nerves were now in such a state that no calm could soothe, and no pleasure excite them agreeably.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
