heaven
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Verb Conjugation Tables & Inflections
Definitions & Usage
The sky, specifically:
(religion) The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially:
(religion) The afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust (compare hell); specifically:
(by extension) Any paradise; any blissful place or experience.
(by extension) A state of bliss; a peaceful ecstasy.
(informal, with a modifier) Similarly blissful afterlives, places, or states for particular people, animals, or objects.
(obsolete) To transport to the abode of God, the gods, or the blessed.
(obsolete) To beatify, enchant, or please greatly.
(obsolete) To beautify, to make into a paradise.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“Ile follow thee and make a heauen of hell.”
— c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
“The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.”
— 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
“They thought strikes and hunger marches the quintessence of politics and Soviet Russia heaven on earth.”
— 1940, H.G. Wells, Babes in the Darkling Wood, II iii 198: