HEAVEN


Meaning of HEAVEN in English

noun

1.

usually heavens plural

Synonyms: sky , empyrean, firmament, welkin

2.

an abode of blissful spiritual life after death

the religious conceptions of heaven and hell

Synonyms: Abraham's bosom, bliss, Canaan, Civitas Dei, elysium, empyrean, happy hunting ground, kingdom come, New Jerusalem, nirvana, paradise, Zion

Related Word: afterworld, eternity, glory, hereafter, promised land; everlastingness, immortality

Idioms: Beulah Land ( or Land of Beulah), City of God, Kingdom of God, Kingdom of Heaven

Contrasted words: earth, world; Gehenna, hades, inferno, netherworld, perdition, pit, Sheol, Tartarus, Tophet, underworld

Antonyms: hell

3.

Synonyms: utopia , arcadia, Cockaigne, fairyland, lubberland, paradise, promised land, Shangri-la, wonderland, Zion

4.

Synonyms: ecstasy , rapture, rhapsody, seventh heaven, transport

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