Definitions for Paradise

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Paradise par·a·dise

Spelling: [par-uh-dahys, -dahyz]

IPA: /ˈpær əˌdaɪs, -ˌdaɪz/

Paradise is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 382 anagrams from letters in Paradise (aadeiprs).

Definitions for Paradise

noun

1. heaven, as the final abode of the righteous.
2. an intermediate place for the departed souls of the righteous awaiting resurrection.
3. (often initial capital letter) Eden1 (def 1).
4. a place of extreme beauty, delight, or happiness.
5. a state of supreme happiness; bliss.
6. Architecture. parvis. an enclosure beside a church, as an atrium or cloister.
7. (initial capital letter, italics). Italian Paradiso [pah-rah-dee-zaw] /ˌpɑ rɑˈdi zɔ/ (Show IPA). the third and concluding part of Dante's Divine Comedy, depicting heaven, through which he is guided by Beatrice. Compare inferno (def 3), purgatory (def 2).
8. a town in N California.

Origin of Paradise

before 1000; Middle English, Old English paradīs Late Latin paradīsus Greek parádeisos park, pleasure-grounds Iranian; compare Avestan pairi-daēza enclosure

Examples for Paradise

This farm was the nearest he would ever come to a paradise and on it he would be his own God.

“paradise lies at the feet of mothers,” Erdogan said on Monday, quoting the Prophet Muhammad.

"I modestly but freely told him what I thought" of paradise Lost!

It may have looked like paradise, but a rebellion was brewing around the Davises.

In Turkey, some mothers find their paradise at the Esme Beltagy Center in Esenler, while others see paradise receding.

Such ideas as paradise, Adam and Eve, and angels, are getting obsolete.

Flesh encircled him at the main pool of the paradise Hotel and Residences at Boca.

What a paradise this would be for the botanist in spring, or for the portrait painter!

Julia Cooke is the author of The Other Side of paradise: Life in the New Cuba.

It caused them to fight for the sole possession of this paradise upon Earth.