A place or condition of great happiness where everything is exactly as you would like it to be:Paradise ultimately comes from an Iranian word that the Greeks modified into paradeisos, meaning \u201cenclosed park.\u201d In Hellenistic Greek, \u201cparadeisos\u201d was also used in the Septuagint \u2013 an early Greek translation of Jewish scriptures \u2013 in reference to the Garden of Eden. Early Christian writers also used \u201cparadeisos\u201d for both Heaven and for the place where righteous souls await resurrection. These senses of \u201cparadeisos\u201d entered into Late Latin as paradisus, and then into Anglo-French (and later, Middle English) as \u201cparadis.\u201d Though originally used in theological senses in English, \u201cparadise\u201d has also come to refer to more earthly states and places of delight as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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