To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.

The part of the spirit world where righteous spirits await the day of their resurrection.

any place of complete bliss and delight and peace

(Christianity) the abode of righteous souls after death

a garden with a wall around it

a most modern love story

literally, the earth before the fall or heaven after the judgment; metaphorically, an ideal state of existence.

Originally a Persian name (paradeisos) for park for exotic animals, the word was used by the Greeks to mean 'an ideal place'. [see E. Yarshater, Encyclopaedia Iranica Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1982- v:624 Stonach writes that ‘In view of the previously unsuspected antiquity of the quadripartite garden plan it is certain that such gardens (and even the sequence of two such gardens along the principal axis) were familiar to the Sassanians'. Also p. 298: the Avestan word was paridaeza, the Old Persian word was paridaidd, the Median word was was paridaza, they all mean 'walled around'.] Example 1 Example 2 Example 3

A heavenly garden; a state of bliss. The Manifestation is "The Nightingale of Paradise"; His Revelation, "the rustling of the leaves of Paradise"; "the love of God" is itself Paradise.

The word paradise does not occur in the story of the creation and fall of man. However, it has been used as a useful synonym for Eden or the Garden of Eden. It comes from a Persian word, pairadaeza, meaning "around wall", referring to the wall traditionally assumed to surround the Garden of Eden. Paradise can refer either to the Garden of Eden or to Heaven. There is a certainly pleasing symmetry about such an arrangement, for it presents human history as beginning in and returning to Paradise. Sometimes Eden is referred to as the "Earthly Paradise" to suggest that it is a foretaste of Heaven, or to emphasize that it is definitely a physical place.

A realm of spirit world below heaven.

Eden, a place for good souls after death, beauty, delight.

The history of paradise is an extreme example of amelioration, the process by which a word comes to refer to something better than what it used to refer to. The old Iranian language Avestan had a noun paraidisea meaning "a wall enclosing a garden or orchard." Zoroastrian religion encouraged maintaining arbors, orchards, and gardens, and even the kings of austere Sparta were edified by seeing the Great King of Persia planting and maintaining his own trees in his own garden. Xenophon, a Greek mercenary soldier who spent some time in the Persian army and later wrote histories, recorded the paraidiseas surrounding the orchard, using it not to refer to the wall itself but to the huge parks that Persian nobles loved to build and hunt in. This Greek word was used in the Septuagint translation of Genesis to refer to the Garden of Eden, whence Old English eventually borrowed it around 1200.

Paradise is generally identified with the Garden of Eden or with Heaven. Originally a walled garden or royal hunting grounds, it entered Jewish (and eventually Christian) beliefs as a Greek translation for the Garden of Eden in the Septuagint. It is sometimes also identified with the bosom of Abraham, the abode of the righteous dead awaiting Judgment Day.

"Paradise" is the second single taken from rapper LL Cool J's ninth studio album 10, featuring R&B singer Amerie. It also appears on the soundtrack to the 2003 film Deliver Us from Eva (in which LL Cool J stars alongside Gabrielle Union). Singer Tweet was originally slated to provide vocals but they instead went with Amerie.

Paradise is the eighth solo album by Leroy Hutson and his first on Elektra Records.

Paradise is the eighth studio album by saxophonist Kenny G. It was released by Arista Records in 2002.

Paradise (AKA Guns of Paradise), was an American western family television series, broadcast by CBS from 1988 to 1991.