Definition of "paradise" in 英语

noun

1. (chiefly religion) The place where sanctified souls are believed to live after death.

   • Living in paradise comes with a price.

2. (Abrahamic religions) A garden where Adam and Eve first lived after being created.

3. (figuratively) A very pleasant place, such as a place full of lush vegetation.

   • an island paradise in the Caribbean

4. (figuratively) An ideal place for a specified type of person, activity, etc.

   • a shoppers’ paradise

5. (figuratively) A very pleasant experience.

6. (architecture, obsolete) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, such as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.

7. (obsolete) A churchyard or cemetery.

8. (slang) The upper gallery in a theatre.

9. A cake, often as a paradise slice.

verb

1. To place (as) in paradise.

   • 1652, Edward Benlowes, Theophila, or, Loves Sacrifice, London: Henry Seile and Humphrey Moseley, Canto 7, stanza 81, p. 105, Yet dy’dst THOU not, but that (Spîrit quickned) free THOU might’st Saints Paradised see, Rejoyc’d Assurance give to Them rejoyc’d in THEE!
   • 1763, uncredited translator, “An Epistle of M. de Voltaire, upon his arrival at his estate near the Lake of Geneva, in March, 1755” in Francis Fawkes and William Woty (eds.), The Poetical Calendar, London: J. Coote, Volume 12, p. 48, […] blest thro’ every hour With blissful change of pleasure and of power, Couldst thou, thus paradis’d, from care remote, Rush to the world, and fight for Peter’s boat?

2. (obsolete) To transform into a paradise.

   • 1613, Thomas Heywood, “Epithalamion” in A Marriage Triumphe Solemnized in an Epithalamium, London: Edward Marchant, She enters with a sweet commanding grace, Her very presence paradic’d the place:
   • 1828, Ann Willson, letter to her brother, in Familiar Letters of Ann Willson, Philadelphia: Wm. D. Parrish & Co., 1850, pp. 84-85, Then let us individually aim at paradising the world, and these efforts, though feeble, would doubtless be blessed to ourselves […]

3. (obsolete, rare) To affect or exalt with visions of happiness.

   • 1606, John Marston, Parasitaster, or The Fawn, London: W. Cotton, Act IV,#*: O we had first some long fortunate greate Politicians that were so sottishlie paradized as to thinke when popular hate seconded Princes displeasure to them, any vnmerited violence could seeme to the world iniustice,