PARADISE


Meaning of PARADISE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

an island paradise

She had booked a beach house on the island paradise of Phuket.

bird of paradise

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

earthly

All men go through life clinging to an idea of an earthly paradise .

There are waterfalls and cascades, cliffs and rocks, native trees and rampant heather in an earthly paradise .

But a new element in Montaigne's essay was its suggestion that the earthly paradise might be a still existing real place.

tropical

A serious photographer can not afford to work in any tropical paradise without shooting from the air.

The view is of downtown Bethesda, not exactly a tropical paradise .

The tropical paradise trip was a reward for 40 years' service with the Severn Trent water company.

■ VERB

live

The very servants live in paradise .

While to the latter the former seem to be living either in paradise or cloud-cuckoo-land.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be living in a fool's paradise

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

For the new immigrants, America seemed like paradise .

Tonga is a tropical paradise .

With so many inexpensive fashion stores, it's a bargain-hunter's paradise .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And if that were to happen, paradise could not be far behind.

Brooklands was like paradise to 19 year old Jack.

But this monopolistic paradise has been lost.

Humans later followed them to enter a hunting paradise .

It is about a paradise one can not have.

What does a photographer look for when commissioned to shoot pristine paradise ?

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