2. The abode of sanctified souls after death.

To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

Luke xxiii. 43.

It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise.

Longfellow.

3. A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight; hence, a

state of happiness.

The earth Shall be all paradise.

Milton.

Wrapt in the very paradise of some creative vision.

Beaconsfield.

4. (Arch.) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as

the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.

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