Paradisename/ˈpæɹ.ə.daɪs/

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  lifestylereligionHeaven.

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  lifestylereligionThe Garden of Eden.

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  A town in Grenada.

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  A village in Suriname.

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  A settlement on the island of Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.

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  A number of places in the United States:

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  A number of places in the United States:

  • A visit to Paradise later on made it clear to Goodlin that the best way to help Paradise was to move back and build a home.
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  A number of places in the United States:

paradisenoun/ˈpæɹədaɪs/

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  lifestylereligionThe place where sanctified souls are believed to live after death.

  • 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.
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  Abrahamic-religionslifestylereligionA garden where Adam and Eve first lived after being created.

  • 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,
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  A very pleasant place, such as a place full of lush vegetation.

  • an island paradise in the Caribbean
  • Let me live here ever; So rare a wonder’d father and a wife Makes this place Paradise.
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  An ideal place for a specified type of person, activity, etc.

  • 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.
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  A very pleasant experience.

  • 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.
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  obsoletearchitectureAn open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, such as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.

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  obsoleteA churchyard or cemetery.

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  slangThe upper gallery in a theatre.

paradiseverb/ˈpæɹədaɪs/

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  To place (as) in paradise.

  • Man himselfe […] euen then, when hee was first paradis’d in the Garden of pleasure, yet had something to doe in it, and was not suffered to walke idlely vp & downe like a Loyterer […]
  • Hadst thou seene Her, in whose breast my heart was paradis’d, Kist, courted, and imbrac’d.
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  obsoleteTo transform into a paradise.

  • […] come all the daintieſt dainties of this toungue, and doe homage to your verticall ſtarre, that hath all the ſoveraine influences of the eloquent and learned conſtellations at a becke, and paradiſeth the earth with the ambroſiall dewes of his incomprehenſible witt!
  • 1613, Thomas Heywood, “Epithalamion” in A Marriage Triumphe Solemnized in an Epithalamium, London: Edward Marchant, She enters with a sweet commanding grace, Her very presence paradic’d the place:
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  obsoleterareTo affect or exalt with visions of happiness.

  • 1606, John Marston, Parasitaster, or The Fawn, London: W. Cotton, Act IV,#*: O we had first some long fortunate greate Politicians that were so sottishlie paradized as to thinke when popular hate seconded Princes displeasure to them, any vnmerited violence could seeme to the world iniustice,