Definition of Paradise

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Paradise

The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed after their creation.

The abode of sanctified souls after death.

A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight; hence, a state of happiness.

An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.

A churchyard or cemetery.

To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.

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Paradise Quotations

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
Erma Bombeck

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
Henry David Thoreau

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
Voltaire

The only paradise is paradise lost.
Marcel Proust

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
Paulo Coelho

Children are the keys of paradise.
Eric Hoffer

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Victor Hugo

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor Hugo

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
William Penn

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
Nikita Khrushchev

Paradise Translations

paradise in Afrikaans is paradys
paradise in Dutch is paradijs
paradise in French is paradis
paradise in German is Paradies
paradise in Italian is paradiso
paradise in Swedish is paradis

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