Other forms: paradises
Paradise is a place of perfect happiness after death. Enter paradise, a tropical paradise, paradise on earth.
The word came into Greek from Persian, where it named a walled royal garden, and the enclosure is the point — a paradise is a bounded perfect place. It is used loosely for anywhere delightful: a walker's paradise. Note bird of paradise, named by traders who claimed the birds never landed.
1nounparadiseA place of perfect happiness after death.
“They believed that good people would go to paradise when they died.”
2noundelightfulAny delightful place.
“The island is a paradise for divers, with clear water and colourful fish.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
paradise is a perfect place.
Greek paradeisos comes from an Old Iranian word for a walled enclosure or royal park. The word travelled through Persian, Greek and Latin.
ira-pro
*paridayjah
Ancient Greek
παράδεισος
Latin
paradīsus
Old French
paradis
Old English
paradīs
Middle English
paradis
English, today
paradise
From Middle English paradis, paradise, paradys, from Late Old English paradīs, borrowed from Old French paradis, from Latin paradīsus, from Ancient Greek παράδεισος, ultimately from ira-pro paridayjah. a doublet of parvis. neorxnawang.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA