/ˈpærədaɪs/
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Translation
A perfect and beautiful place; in some religions, the happy place where good people go after death.
Word origin
From Greek paradeisos, meaning a walled garden, which the Greeks took from Old Persian pairidaeza.
- Origin
- Old Persian
- Root
- pairidaeza
Examples
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We compare a beautiful place to paradise.
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Here it means a perfect place for a certain kind of person.
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This is the religious meaning, close to heaven.
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