Heaven

/ˈhɛvən/ · noun

Meaning

The sky, specifically:.

Definitions by Sense

1. The sky, specifically:
2. (religion) The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially:
3. (religion) The afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust (compare hell); specifically:
4. (by extension) Any paradise; any blissful place or experience.
5. (by extension) A state of bliss; a peaceful ecstasy.
6. (informal, with a modifier) Similarly blissful afterlives, places, or states for particular people, animals, or objects.
7. (obsolete) To transport to the abode of God, the gods, or the blessed.
8. (obsolete) To beatify, enchant, or please greatly.

Example Sentences

I wonder what your idea of heaven would be—A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably be an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze... To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on 9 different floors...

England, that was formerly the heaven, would be now the hell for women.

Such a shop as that...would be quite a heaven upon earth to me.

Ile follow thee and make a heauen of hell.

The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.

They thought strikes and hunger marches the quintessence of politics and Soviet Russia heaven on earth.

While eating my snack I decided to walk around the house and I saw the hallways change into beautiful valleys and oceans. The television screen appeared on the wall. It was so beautiful that I thought I was in heaven.

Husbandes are in heauen...whose wiues scold not.

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• heavens
• heav'n
• heavening
• heavened

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