paradise
part of speech
noun (paradise; also a name: Paradise)
meaning for a pupil
1) Paradise is a perfect, happy place, like a beautiful garden. tree →
2) In many religions, paradise is heaven, a perfect place after life. tree →
3) Paradise is also used in the names of places, birds and shops. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Sefer Yetzirah this is not a garden but a name for a high spiritual level, the Sixteenth Path, "the Paradise prepared for the Righteous." Interpretation: Tradition reads it as the reward of the righteous, the pleasure of the divine Glory. In Jewish thought this is the world to come, sometimes pictured as the Garden of Eden. In the primary lessons: In maths: a word of the story only; sometimes a name of a place or a shop. In everyday life: «a paradise for kids», «a shopper's paradise». In science: birds of paradise have bright feathers. In stories: an island paradise, a lost paradise.
examples
- The Sixteenth Path is the Triumphal or Eternal Intelligence, so called because it is the pleasure of the Glory, beyond which is no other Glory like to it, and it is called also the Paradise prepared for the Righteous. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) tree →
- The Sixteenth Path is the Triumphal or Eternal In- telligence, so called because it is the pleasure of the Glory, beyond which is no other Glory like to it, and it is called also the Paradise prepared for the Righteous. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- The garden was a paradise for birds. tree →
- They went to Paradise Park. tree →
- The island is a paradise with 300 palm trees. tree →
- The toy shop was a paradise for my little brother. tree →
- A bird of paradise has long, bright feathers. tree →
- The beach looked like paradise. tree →
- In the story, the travellers searched for a lost paradise. tree →
- "We shall soon reach the garden of paradise now." tree →
note
Carries no number or operation. It is a place word in the story. Usually uncountable and used without «a»; write it with a capital letter when it is a name (Paradise Park).
Trees and pragmatics
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