paradise

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The place where sanctified souls are believed to live after death.

   Living in paradise comes with a price.

2. 2
   noun

   A garden where Adam and Eve first lived after being created.

   Not that Adam that kept the Paradise but that Adam that keeps the prison:

3. 3
   noun

   A very pleasant place, such as a place full of lush vegetation.

   an island paradise in the Caribbean

4. 4
   noun

   An ideal place for a specified type of person, activity, etc.

   a shoppers’ paradise

5. 5
   noun

   A very pleasant experience.

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   A cake, often as a paradise slice.

   She was learned in decocting all kinds of herb-tea, infallible in curing burns, sprains, and scalds; and not a few pennyworths of gingerbread and paradise (for the latter she was very famous) went among her young customers, for which the till was never the richer.

7. 7
   verb

   To place (as) in paradise.

   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 […]

8. 8
   verb

   To transform into a paradise.

   […] come all the daintieſt dainties of this toungue, and doe homage to your verticall ſtarre, that hath all the ſoveraine influences of the eloquent and learned conſtellations at a becke, and paradiſeth the earth with the ambroſiall dewes of his incomprehenſible witt!

Etymology

From Middle English paradis, paradise, paradys, from Late Old English paradīs, borrowed from Old French paradis, from Latin paradīsus, from Ancient Greek παράδεισος (parádeisos), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *paridayjah. Doublet of parvis. Displaced Old English neorxnawang.