paradise

noun

1 the pagan belief that the soul of a murdered person never entered paradise:

heaven, the kingdom of heaven, the promised land, the heavenly kingdom, the City of God, the celestial city, the abode of God, the abode of the saints, Zion, Abraham's bosom;

Christian Church the New Jerusalem;

Greek MythologyRoman Mythology Elysium, the Elysian Fields, the Islands of the Blessed;

Scandinavian Mythology Valhalla;

in Arthurian legend Avalon.

2 Adam and Eve's expulsion from Paradise:

the Garden of Eden, Eden.

3 Bali is a lush tropical paradise:

Utopia, fairyland, Shangri-La, heaven, idyll, nirvana;

literary Arcadia.

4 the sun rising slowly above the mountains—sheer paradise!:

bliss, heaven, ecstasy, rapture, delight, joy, happiness, nirvana, seventh heaven, heaven on earth.

▷antonyms hell.