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heavens
[hev-uhn] 
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heaven
[hev-uhn]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place where God lives; wonderful feeling |
| Synonyms: | 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 |
| Antonyms: | hell |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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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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| Antonyms: | hell |
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| Main Entry: | afterlife |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | life after death |
| Synonyms: | eternity, heaven, hereafter, immortality, the great beyond |
| Main Entry: | air |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gases forming the atmosphere |
| Synonyms: | blast, breath, breeze, draft, heavens, ozone, puff, sky, stratosphere, troposphere, ventilation, waft, whiff, wind, zephyr |
| Main Entry: | atmosphere |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gases around the earth |
| Synonyms: | air, envelope, heavens, pressure, sky, substratosphere, troposphere |
| Main Entry: | bliss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ecstasy |
| Synonyms: | beatitude, blessedness, cool*, euphoria, felicity, gladness, gone*, happiness, heaven*, joy, paradise, rapture |
| Antonyms: | grief, misery, sorrow, unhappiness, upset |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | death |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end of life |
| Synonyms: | afterlife, annihilation, bereavement, casualty, cessation, curtains, darkness, decease, demise, departure, destruction, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, eradication, eternal rest, euthanasia, exit, expiration, extermination, extinction, fatality, finis, finish, grave, grim reaper, heaven, loss, mortality, necrosis, obliteration, oblivion, paradise, parting, passing, passing over, quietus, release, repose, ruin, ruination, silence, sleep, termination, tomb |
| Antonyms: | being, birth, entity, existence, life, living |
| Main Entry: | deep space |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outer space |
| Synonyms: | celestial spaces, cosmic space, cosmos, intercosmic space, intergalactic space, interplanetary space, interstellar space, metagalactic space, ocean of emptiness, outer space, region beyond Earth's solar system, the heavens, the universe, the void, the void above |
| Main Entry: | distance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interval, range |
| Synonyms: | absence, ambit, amplitude, area, bit, breadth, compass, country mile, expanse, extension, extent, far piece, farness, gap, good ways, heavens, hinterland, horizon, lapse, length, objective, orbit, outpost, outskirts, provinces, purlieu, purview, radius, reach, remoteness, remove, scope, separation, size, sky, space, span, spread, stretch, sweep, way, width |
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