| Main Entry: | heaven |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place where God lives; wonderful feeling |
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Arcadia, Canaan, Elysium, Shangri-la, Utopia, Zion, afterworld, atmosphere, azure*, beyond, bliss, dreamland, ecstasy, empyrean, enchantment, eternal home, eternal rest, eternity, fairyland, felicity, firmament, glory, great unknown, happiness, happy hunting ground, harmony, heights, hereafter, immortality, kingdom, kingdom come, life everlasting, life to come, next world, nirvana, paradise, pearly gates, promised land, rapture, sky*, the blue, transport, upstairs, wonderland |
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hell |
| Main Entry: | great beyond |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | life after death |
Synonyms: |
afterlife, hereafter, next world, the beyond, the great unknown, the unknown, world beyond |
| Main Entry: | heaven |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Concept: | Heaven. |
| Category: | 2. Mythological and other fabulous deities and powers |
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-nouns
heaven; kingdom of heaven, kingdom of God; heavenly kingdom; throne of God; presence of God; inheritance of the saints in light., Paradise, Eden, Zion, abode of the blessed; celestial bliss, glory., [Mythological heaven] Olympus; [paradise] Elysium, Elysian fields, Arcadia, bowers of bliss, garden of the Hesperides, third heaven; Valhalla, Walhall [Scandinavian]; Nirvana [Buddhist]; happy hunting grounds; Alfardaws, Assama; Falak al aflak "the highest heaven" [Muslim]., future state, eternal home., resurrection, translation; resuscitation., apotheosis, deification.
-adjectives
heavenly, celestial, supernal, unearthly, from on high, paradisiacal, beatific, elysian.
-phrases
"looks through nature up to the nature's god" [Pope]; "the great world's altar-stairs, that slope through darkness up to God" [Tennyson]; "the treasury of
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hell |
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