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nounany place of complete bliss and delight and peace
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noun(Christianity) the abode of righteous souls after deathtype of:
Definition that contains paradise
- eden a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation; when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were driven from their paradise (the fall of man)
- dante an Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through Hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321)
- beatrice the woman who guided Dante through Paradise in the Divine Comedy
- peri (Persian folklore) a supernatural being descended from fallen angels and excluded from paradise until penance is done
- paradisiacal relating to or befitting Paradise
- houri (Islam) one of the dark-eyed virgins of perfect beauty believed to live with the blessed in Paradise
- paradisaeidae birds of paradise
- riflebird velvety black Australian bird of paradise with green and purple iridescence on head and tail
- paradisal relating to or befitting Paradise
- dante alighieri an Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through Hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321)