Paradise

Paradise - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

A Persian word (pardes), properly meaning a "pleasure-ground" or "park" or "king's garden." (See [458]EDEN.) It came in course of time to be used as a name for the world of happiness and rest hereafter (Luke 23:43; 2 Cor. 12:4; Rev. 2:7). For "garden" in Gen. 2:8 the LXX. has "paradise."

Paradise - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

PAR'ADISE, n. [Gr.] The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed immediately after their creation.

1. A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight.

The earth

Shall all be paradise--

2. Heaven, the blissful seat of sanctified souls after death.

This day shalt thou be with me in paradise. Luke 23.

3. Primarily, in Persia, a pleasure-garden with parks and other appendages.