paradise means heaven. It carries an Arena rating of 1370, earned across 3 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, paradise ranks #157 of 17,120 for Most Beautiful Words, #1,202 of 17,116 for Words That Escaped Their Books, #1,660 of 17,123 for Most Malleable Words, #2,470 of 17,113 for Most Elegant Words.
paradise is pronounced /ˈpæɹ.ə.daɪs/.
Why “paradise” is a great word
An ideal state or place of supreme bliss, especially the final abode of the righteous or an unsullied, idyllic garden. From Old French paradis, from Late Latin paradisus ("garden of Eden, paradise"), from Greek paradeisos ("park, garden, paradise"), from Old Iranian *pairi-daēza- ("walled enclosure, garden"), first attested in late Old English. Unlike "utopia," a rationally constructed perfect society, or "Arcadia," a rustic ideal of pastoral simplicity, paradise denotes a transcendent, often divinely ordained perfection. It is the scent of damp earth beneath ancient boughs, the profound stillness of a garden after a long absence, and the imagined coolness of water flowing beneath a shade-giving tree—the original silence before the first footfall.
Etymology
From paradise.
The town in Newfoundland is named after Houmet Paradis near Guernsey.
name
- Heaven.
- The Garden of Eden.
- A town in Grenada.
- A village in Suriname.
- A settlement on the island of Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.
- A number of places in the United States:; A ghost town in Cochise County, Arizona.
- A number of places in the United States:; A town in Butte County, California.e.g.“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.”
- A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Mono County, California.
- A number of places in the United States:; A city in Kansas.
- A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Montana.
- A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated town and census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada.
- A number of places in the United States:; A township and census-designated place therein, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
- A number of places in the United States:; A city in Texas.
- A number of places in the United States:; A town in Utah.
- A number of places in the United States:; A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Paradise Township.
noun
- The place where sanctified souls are believed to live after death.e.g.“Living in paradise comes with a price.”
- A garden where Adam and Eve first lived after being created.e.g.“Not that Adam that kept the Paradise but that Adam that keeps the prison:”
- A very pleasant place, such as a place full of lush vegetation.e.g.“an island paradise in the Caribbean”
- An ideal place for a specified type of person, activity, etc.e.g.“a shoppers’ paradise”
- A very pleasant experience.e.g.“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.”
- An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, such as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.
- A churchyard or cemetery.
- The upper gallery in a theatre.
- A cake, often as a paradise slice.
verb
- To place (as) in paradise.e.g.“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 […]”
- To transform into a paradise.
- To affect or exalt with visions of happiness.