paradise
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paradise - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Paradise \Par"a*dise\ (p[a^]r"[.a]*d[imac]s), n. [OE. & F.
paradis, L. paradisus, fr. Gr. para`deisos park, paradise,
fr. Zend pairida[=e]za an inclosure; pairi around (akin to
Gr. peri`) + diz to throw up, pile up; cf. Skr. dih to smear,
and E. dough. Cf. Parvis.]
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1. The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed
after their creation.
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2. The abode of sanctified souls after death.
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To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise. --Luke
xxiii. 43.
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It sounds to him like her mother's voice,
Singing in Paradise. --Longfellow.
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3. A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight;
hence, a state of happiness.
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The earth
Shall be all paradise. --Milton.
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Wrapt in the very paradise of some creative vision.
--Beaconsfield.
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4. (Arch.) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a
church, as the space within a cloister, the open court
before a basilica, etc.
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5. A churchyard or cemetery. [Obs.] --Oxf. Gloss.
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Fool's paradise. See under Fool, and Limbo.
Grains of paradise. (Bot.) See Melequeta pepper, under
Pepper.
Paradise bird. (Zool.) Same as Bird of paradise. Among
the most beautiful species are the superb (Lophorina superba
); the magnificent (Diphyllodes magnifica); and
the six-shafted paradise bird (Parotia sefilata). The
long-billed paradise birds (Epimachin[ae]) also include
some highly ornamental species, as the twelve-wired
paradise bird (Seleucides alba), which is black, yellow,
and white, with six long breast feathers on each side,
ending in long, slender filaments. See Bird of paradise
in the Vocabulary.
Paradise fish (Zool.), a beautiful fresh-water Asiatic fish
(Macropodus viridiauratus) having very large fins. It is
often kept alive as an ornamental fish.
Paradise flycatcher (Zool.), any flycatcher of the genus
Terpsiphone, having the middle tail feathers extremely
elongated. The adult male of Terpsiphone paradisi is
white, with the head glossy dark green, and crested.
Paradise grackle (Zool.), a very beautiful bird of New
Guinea, of the genus Astrapia, having dark velvety
plumage with brilliant metallic tints.
Paradise nut (Bot.), the sapucaia nut. See Sapucaia nut.
[Local, U. S.]
Paradise whidah bird. (Zool.) See Whidah.
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Paradise \Par"a*dise\ (p[a^]r"[.a]*d[imac]s), v. t.
To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to
bewitch. [R.] --Marston.
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paradise - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
paradise
n 1: any place of complete bliss and delight and peace [syn:
Eden, paradise, nirvana, heaven, promised land,
Shangri-la]
2: (Christianity) the abode of righteous souls after death
paradise - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :
Paradise
Paradise is a subsystem (a set of packages) developed to
implement inter-processes, inter-tasks and inter-machine
communication for Ada programs under Unix. This subsystem
gives the user full access to files, pipes, sockets (both
Unix and Internet) and pseudo-devices.
Paradise has been ported to Sun, DEC, Sony MIPS,
Verdex compiler, DEC compiler, Alsys/Systeam compiler.
Version 2.0 of the library (ftp://cnam.cnam.fr/pub/Ada/Paradise)
. E-mail:
<paradise-info@cnam.cnam.fr>.
(1992-09-30)
paradise - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :
Paradise
a Persian word (pardes), properly meaning a "pleasure-ground" or
"park" or "king's garden." (See EDEN.) It came in
course of time to be used as a name for the world of happiness
and rest hereafter (Luke 23:43; 2 Cor. 12:4; Rev. 2:7). For
"garden" in Gen. 2:8 the LXX. has "paradise."
paradise - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :
Paradise, CA (town, FIPS 55520)
Location: 39.75641 N, 121.60433 W
Population (1990): 25408 (11633 housing units)
Area: 48.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 95969
Paradise, KS (city, FIPS 54325)
Location: 39.11455 N, 98.91756 W
Population (1990): 66 (36 housing units)
Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 67658
Paradise, MI
Zip code(s): 49768
Paradise, NV (CDP, FIPS 54600)
Location: 36.08082 N, 115.13360 W
Population (1990): 124682 (63924 housing units)
Area: 123.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Paradise, PA (CDP, FIPS 57840)
Location: 40.00677 N, 76.12230 W
Population (1990): 1043 (374 housing units)
Area: 2.9 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 17562
Paradise, TX
Zip code(s): 76073
Paradise, UT (town, FIPS 57850)
Location: 41.56761 N, 111.83321 W
Population (1990): 561 (173 housing units)
Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 84328
paradise - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
166 Moby Thesaurus words for "paradise":
Agapemone, Arcadia, Avalon, Big Rock-Candy Mountain, Canaan,
Celestial City, City of God, Civitas Dei, Cloudcuckooland,
Cockaigne, Eden, Eldorado, Elysium, Erewhon, Garden of Eden,
Goshen, Happy Valley, Indian reservation, Japanese garden,
Land of Beulah, Land of Youth, Laputa, Never-Never-land, Neverland,
New Atlantis, New Jerusalem, Pandemonium, Quivira, Shangri-la,
Utopia, Valhalla, Zion, alpine garden, arboretum, arcadia,
archives, auditorium, balcony, bank, beatification, beatitude, bed,
bewitchment, bird sanctuary, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness,
bog garden, border, botanical garden, box, box seat, cheer,
cheerfulness, cloud nine, cloudland, common, commons, delectation,
delight, dreamland, dress circle, dry garden, dystopia, ecstasy,
ecstatics, elation, elysium, empyrean, enchantment, exaltation,
exhilaration, exuberance, faerie, fairyland, fauteuil, felicity,
flower bed, flower garden, forest preserve, gaiety, gallery,
game reserve, garden, garden spot, gladness, glee, grape ranch,
grapery, happiness, happy hunting ground, heaven, heavenly kingdom,
herbarium, high spirits, hortus siccus, intoxication, jardin, joy,
joyance, joyfulness, kakotopia, kingdom come, kitchen garden,
land of dreams, land of enchantment, land of faerie,
land of plenty, land of promise, library, loge, lotus land,
market garden, millennium, museum, national forest, national park,
nigger heaven, nirvana, orchestra, orchestra circle,
ornamental garden, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, park, parquet,
parquet circle, parterre, peanut gallery, pinetum, pit, pleasance,
pleasure garden, pleasure ground, preserve, promised land,
proscenium boxes, public park, rapture, ravishment, reservation,
reserve, rock garden, roof garden, sanctuary, seventh heaven,
shrubbery, stall, standing room, state forest, store,
sunken garden, sunshine, tea garden, theatre stall, transport,
truck garden, unalloyed happiness, utopia, vegetable garden,
victory garden, vinery, vineyard, wilderness preserve,
wildlife preserve, wonderland
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "Paradise":
Beulah, Beulah Land, Heaven, Land of Beulah, a better place,
afterlife, afterworld, better world, destiny, eternal home,
eternity, fate, future state, glory, happy hunting ground,
heaven above, heavenly kingdom, high heaven, home, kingdom come,
kingdom of God, kingdom of glory, kingdom of heaven,
life after death, life to come, next world, otherworld,
postexistence, presence of God, realm of light, the Promised Land,
the beyond, the good hereafter, the grave, the great beyond,
the great hereafter, the happy land, the hereafter, the unknown,
the world above, what bodes, what is fated, world to come
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