paradise

noun paradises · paradize

1. countable, uncountable The place where sanctified souls are believed to live after death. Living in paradise comes with a price.

   Similar: Heaven, heaven

2. countable, figuratively, uncountable A very pleasant place, such as a place full of lush vegetation. Near-synonym: rose garden

   Similar: earthly paradise, heaven, rose garden

3. countable, figuratively, uncountable An ideal place for a specified type of person, activity, etc. a shoppers’ paradise
4. countable, figuratively, uncountable 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.
5. countable, obsolete, uncountable An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, such as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.
6. countable, obsolete, uncountable A churchyard or cemetery.
7. countable, slang, uncountable The upper gallery in a theatre.
8. countable, uncountable 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.

Similar: heaven, Eden, Shangri-La, Peach Blossom Spring, utopia, Arcadia, Arcady, Avalon, kingdom come, nirvana, sweet hereafter, happy hunting ground

proper noun paradize

1. Alternative letter-case form of Paradise (“Heaven”).
2. Alternative letter-case form of Paradise (“the Garden of Eden”). Not that Adam that kept the Paradise but that Adam that keeps the prison:

verb paradises · paradising · paradised · paradize

1. 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 […]

   Similar: imparadise

2. obsolete 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!
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,

   Similar: entrance, bewitch

proper noun

1. Heaven.
2. The Garden of Eden.
3. A town in Grenada.
4. A village in Suriname.
5. A settlement on the island of Saint Croix, United States Virgin Islands.
6. A ghost town in Cochise County, Arizona.
7. A town in Butte County, California. A visit to Paradise later on made it clear to Goodlin that the best way to help Paradise was to move back and build a home.
8. A census-designated place in Mono County, California.
9. A city in Kansas.
10. A census-designated place in Montana.
11. An unincorporated town and census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada.
12. A township and census-designated place therein, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker gestures to the National Mall while showing a group of Amish men from Quarryville and Paradise the House speaker's balcony at the U.S. Capitol to on Sept. 26, 2018. Smucker is running for re-election to represent the 11th Congressional District.
13. A city in Texas.
14. A town in Utah.
15. A number of other townships in the United States, listed under Paradise Township.
16. A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
17. A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
18. A locality in the Inverell council area, north eastern New South Wales.
19. A locality in Kentish council area, northern Tasmania.
20. A locality in the Shire of Northern Grampians, central western Victoria.
21. A rural locality north of Glenorchy, Otago, New Zealand.
22. A hamlet in Askam and Ireleth parish, Barrow-in-Furness district, Cumbria (OS grid ref SD2278).
23. A hamlet in Painswick parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO8611).
24. A suburb of Hemel Hempstead, Dacorum district, Hertfordshire (OS grid ref TL0506).
25. A small riverside suburb in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear (OS grid ref NZ2163).
26. A neighbourhood in central Birmingham, West Midlands (OS grid ref SP0686).
27. A northern suburb of Coventry, West Midlands (OS grid ref SP3481).
28. A barangay of Gonzaga, Cagayan, Philippines.
29. A barangay of Ramon Magsaysay, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines.
30. A barangay of Diplahan, Zamboanga Sibugay, Philippines.
31. A barangay of Cabanglasan, Bukidnon, Philippines.
32. A barangay of Banisilan, Cotabato, Philippines.