Paradise

:Paradise is also a title of a tv-series

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The word paradise is derived from the Avestan word of pairidaeza (a walled enclosure), which is a compound of pairi- (around), a cognate of the Greek peri-, and -diz (to create, make). Sources as early as Xenophon in his Anabasis report the famed Persian "paradise" garden. The form of the word that is now understood as "heaven" or "something immensely pleasurable" is derived from the Greek paradeisos used in the Septuagint to mean the Garden of Eden. In the New Testament paradise meant Heaven.

Related Topics:
Avestan - Xenophon - Anabasis - Septuagint - Garden of Eden - Heaven

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For a full etymology visit the Etymology online report for Paradise.

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Things commonly known as paradise include:

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• The ideal place on earth or utopia, which was once embodied by the Garden of Eden.
• Heaven, which in some religions awaits the best, repentant or chosen people.
• An enclosed garden, sometimes called a paradise garden.
• The third book of Dante's Divine Comedy.

Places called Paradise include:

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• Paradise, California
• Paradise, Kansas
• Paradise, Louisiana
• Paradise, Michigan
• Paradise, Montana
• Paradise, Nevada
• Paradise, Pennsylvania
• Paradise, Texas
• Paradise, Utah
• Paradise Township, Pennsylvania
• Paradise, South Australia
• Paradise, Tasmania, Australia
• Paradise, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• Paradise, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
• Paradise, Otago, New Zealand
 
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