- par|a|dise
- par|a|dise «PAR uh dys», noun.1. a) the abode of God, the angels, and the righteous; heaven. b) an intermediate place spoken of by some theologians, where the souls of the righteous await the Last Judgment. c) the Muslim heaven, especially when thought of as a place of hedonistic delight: »
The Moors imagined the paradise of their prophet to be situated in that part of the heaven which overhung the kingdom of Granada (Washington Irving).
2. Figurative. a place or condition of great happiness; »The summer camp was a paradise for him. This state of things should have been to me a paradise of peace (Charlotte Brontë). This sunny island off the Spanish coast has been a smuggler's paradise since time immemorial (New York Times).
3. a place of great beauty.4. Also, Paradise. the Garden of Eden.╂[partly Old English paradīs, partly < Old French paradis, learned borrowing from Latin paradīsus < Greek parádeisos < Iranian (compare Avestan pairidaēza enclosed park < pairi- around + daēza wall)]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.