PARADISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Paradise mean? 

• PARADISE (noun)
  The noun PARADISE has 2 senses:

1. any place of complete bliss and delight and peace

2. (Christianity) the abode of righteous souls after death

  Familiarity information: PARADISE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARADISE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Eden; heaven; nirvana; paradise; promised land; Shangri-la

Hypernyms ("paradise" is a kind of...):

part; region (the extended spatial location of something)

Derivation:

paradisal; paradisiacal (relating to or befitting Paradise)

Sense 2

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)

 Context examples 

It became a sort of boys' paradise, and Laurie suggested that it should be called the 'Bhaer-garten', as a compliment to its master and appropriate to its inhabitants.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

That night was the one night for me. I was in paradise.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“How know you then that he is in paradise?” asked Sir Nigel.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And the woman was a termagant—at least so I've been told. It was generally accepted in Berkeley that she made life—er—not exactly paradise for her husband.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Miserable I am, and must be for a time; for the catastrophe which drove me from a house I had found a paradise was of a strange and direful nature.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was indeed a paradise compared to the bleak forest, my former residence, the rain-dropping branches, and dank earth.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Mine was a quiet back-garret with a sloping roof, commanding a pleasant prospect of a timberyard; and when I took possession of it, with the reflection that Mr. Micawber's troubles had come to a crisis at last, I thought it quite a paradise.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Ah, my boy, he shook his head ominously at me, ’tis the worst schooner ye could iv selected, nor were ye drunk at the time as was I. ’Tis sealin’ is the sailor’s paradise—on other ships than this.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But that autumn the serpent got into Meg's paradise, and tempted her like many a modern Eve, not with apples, but with dress.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“He could stretch one toe to the ground and bear himself up, so that I thought he would never have done. Now at last, however, he is safely in paradise, and so I may jog on upon my earthly way.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)