paradise
pronunciation
How to pronounce paradise in British English:
UK [ˈpærədaɪs]
How to pronounce paradise in American English:
US [ˈpærədaɪs]
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- Noun:
- any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
Word Origin
- paradise
- paradise: [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 péri, from which English gets the prefix peri-) and diz ‘make, form’ (which comes from the same Indo- European source as produced English dairy, dough, and the second syllable of lady).Greek took the word over as parádeisos, and specialized ‘enclosed place’ to an ‘enclosed park’; and in the Greek version of the Bible it was applied to the ‘garden of Eden’. English acquired the word via Latin paradīsus and Old French paradis.=> dairy, dough, lady
- paradise (n.)
- late 12c., "Garden of Eden," from Old French paradis "paradise, Garden of Eden" (11c.), from Late Latin paradisus, from Greek paradeisos "park, paradise, Garden of Eden," from an Iranian source similar to Avestan pairidaeza "enclosure, park" (Modern Persian and Arabic firdaus "garden, paradise"), compound of pairi- "around" + diz "to make, form (a wall)." The first element is cognate with Greek peri- "around, about" (see per), the second is from PIE root *dheigh- "to form, build" (see dough). The Greek word, originally used for an orchard or hunting park in Persia, was used in Septuagint to mean "Garden of Eden," and in New Testament translations of Luke xxiii:43 to mean "heaven" (a sense attested in English from c. 1200). Meaning "place like or compared to Paradise" is from c. 1300.
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Example
- 1. Were the soviets living in a fool 's paradise ?
- 2. Paradise is located on the coast somewhere beyond india and china .
- 3. Our inner garden was my paradise ; it was enough for me .
- 4. When you were deceived by adam and eve , you drove them out of paradise .
- 5. Yet this palaeontological paradise holds a dark secret : the mass deaths were not caused by a single event .