paradise
[noun]
Synonyms:
- heaven, Elysian fields, Happy Valley, Promised Land
- bliss, delight, felicity, heaven, utopia

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Related Idioms: the next world (or life)

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

par‧a‧dise /ˈpærədaɪs/ noun
[Date: 1100-1200; Language: Old French; Origin: Late Latin, from Greek paradeisos 'enclosed park']

1. [uncountable] a place or situation that is extremely pleasant, beautiful, or enjoyable:
a beautiful tropical paradise
The hotel felt like paradise after two weeks of camping.
A home near the sea is my idea of paradise.

2. [singular] a place that has everything you need for doing a particular activity:
The market is a shopper’s paradise.
paradise for
Hawaii is a paradise for surfers.

3. Paradise [singular]
a) in some religions, a perfect place where people are believed to go after they die, if they have led good lives ⇒ heaven
b) according to the Bible, the garden where the first humans, Adam and Eve, lived
⇒ bird of paradise, ⇒ be living in a fool’s paradise at fool¹(9)

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

paradise
noun
I. heaven
VERB + PARADISE go to They all expected to go to paradise.
PREP. in ~ an angel in paradise

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paradise
II. perfect place
ADJ. perfect, unspoilt | beautiful | lost the lost paradise of childhood
children's, walker's, etc. | earthly, island, tropical
VERB + PARADISE create She worked on the garden until she had created her own little paradise.
find They moved to the country hoping to find paradise.
PARADISE + NOUN island
PREP. in (a) ~ We found ourselves in a tropical paradise.
~ for The airport is a paradise for pickpockets.
~ of a paradise of golden beaches
PHRASES a paradise on earth

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

paradise
a place on earth that is as lovely as paradise
The resort in the mountains was paradise on earth.

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