Paradise

  • 41paradise — par|a|dise [ perə,daıs ] noun * 1. ) Paradise Heaven, the place where some people believe you go when you die if you have lived a good life 2. ) count or uncount a perfect place or situation: The Seychelles are what most people think of as an… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 42paradise — noun 1) the souls in paradise Syn: heaven, the kingdom of heaven, the heavenly kingdom, Elysium, the Elysian Fields, Valhalla, Avalon Ant: hell 2) Adam and Eve s expulsion from Paradise Syn …

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  • 43Paradise FM — Musiques de Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories Article principal : Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. Dans le jeu vidéo Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, plusieurs radios peuvent être écoutées : Sommaire 1 V Rock 2 Flash FM 3… …

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  • 44Paradise — This interesting and unusual surname, recorded in London church registers from the mid 16th Century under the variant spellings Parradice, Parradyce, Paradis, Parades etc., derives from the Old English pardis , from the church Latin paradisus ,… …

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  • 45paradise — n. an earthly paradise * * * [ pærədaɪs] an earthly paradise …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 46paradise — noun 1) Syn: heaven, the promised land, the Elysian Fields 2) a tropical paradise Syn: Utopia, Shangri La, Eden, heaven, idyll 3) this is sheer paradise! Syn …

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  • 47Paradise —    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… …

    Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • 48paradise — The Greek term used (Gen. 2:8) in LXX for the garden of Eden; originally a Persian word. It became associated with the time of primeval bliss and so also of the destination of the righteous in the age to come. Paul uses the image when he… …

    Dictionary of the Bible

  • 49paradise — [12] Paradise comes from an ancient Persian word meaning ‘enclosed place’. In Avestan, the Indo European language in which the Zoroastrian religious texts were written, pairidaēza was a compound formed from pairi ‘around’ (a relative of Greek… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 50PARADISE —    the realm HEAVEN where the blessed or SAVED go after DEATH. In ISLAM paradise is vividly depicted as a garden with abundant water, luxurious foliage and beautiful women who constantly serve men …

    Concise dictionary of Religion