paradise

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈpæɹədaɪs/|/ˈpaɹədɑjs/    美 /ˈpæɹədaɪs/|/ˈpæɹədɑes/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The place where sanctified souls are believed to live after death. countable,uncountable
    — Living in paradise comes with a price.
  2. A garden where Adam and Eve first lived after being created. countable,uncountable
    — Not that Adam that kept the Paradise but that Adam that keeps the prison:
  3. A very pleasant place, such as a place full of lush vegetation. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — an island paradise in the Caribbean
  4. An ideal place for a specified type of person, activity, etc. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — a shoppers’ paradise
  5. A very pleasant experience. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death.
  6. An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, such as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc. countable,obsolete,uncountable
  7. A churchyard or cemetery. countable,obsolete,uncountable
  8. The upper gallery in a theatre. countable,slang,uncountable
  9. A cake, often as a paradise slice. countable,uncountable
    — She was learned in decocting all kinds of herb-tea, infallible in curing burns, sprains, and scalds; and not a few pennyworths of gingerbread and paradise (for the latter she was very famous) went among her young customers, for which the till was never the richer.
动词 v.
  1. To place (as) in paradise.
    — Man himselfe […] euen then, when hee was first paradis’d in the Garden of pleasure, yet had something to doe in it, and was not suffered to walke idlely vp & downe like a Loyterer […]
  2. To transform into a paradise. obsolete
    — […] come all the daintieſt dainties of this toungue, and doe homage to your verticall ſtarre, that hath all the ſoveraine influences of the eloquent and learned conſtellations at a becke, and paradiſeth the earth with the ambroſiall dewes of his incomprehenſible witt!
  3. To affect or exalt with visions of happiness. obsolete,rare
    — 1606, John Marston, Parasitaster, or The Fawn, London: W. Cotton, Act IV,#*: O we had first some long fortunate greate Politicians that were so sottishlie paradized as to thinke when popular hate seconded Princes displeasure to them, any vnmerited violence could seeme to the world iniustice,

词形变化

paradises plural paradize alternative,obsolete paradises present,singular,third-person paradising participle,present paradised participle,past paradised past paradize alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
heaven Eden Shangri-La Peach Blossom Spring utopia Arcadia Arcady Avalon kingdom come nirvana sweet hereafter happy hunting ground
衍生词
another day in paradise bird of paradise disparadise disparadised earthly paradise eastern paradise whydah emparadise fool's paradise grain of paradise grains of paradise imparadise long-tailed paradise whydah magnificent bird of paradise paradisaic paradisaical paradisal paradisean paradise crane paradise-crow paradise duck paradisefish paradise flycatcher Paradise Island paradise nut paradise on Earth paradise parrot paradise shelduck paradise skipper paradise sugar paradise syndrome paradise tree paradisiac paradisiacal paradisial paradisian paradisic paradisical paradol Surfers Paradise trouble in paradise unparadise workers' paradise
相关词
Abraham's bosom Arcadia Avalon Eden happy hunting ground kingdom come nirvana Shangri-La sweet hereafter utopia

词源

词源 1
From Middle English paradis, paradise, paradys, from Late Old English paradīs, borrowed from Old French paradis, from Latin paradīsus, from Ancient Greek παράδεισος (parádeisos), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *paridayjah. Doublet of parvis. Displaced Old English neorxnawang.
词源 2
From Middle English paradis, paradise, paradys, from Late Old English paradīs, borrowed from Old French paradis, from Latin paradīsus, from Ancient Greek παράδεισος (parádeisos), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *paridayjah. Doublet of parvis. Displaced Old English neorxnawang.
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