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HEAVEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The abode of God and the angels
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Heaven" is a kind of...):
fictitious place; imaginary place; mythical place (a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Heaven"):
Abraham's bosom; bosom of Abraham (the place where the just enjoy the peace of heaven after death)
Celestial City; City of God; Heavenly City; Holy City (phrases used to refer to Heaven)
Elysian Fields; Elysium ((Greek mythology) the abode of the blessed after death)
Eden; Garden of Eden (a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation; when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were driven from their paradise (the fall of man))
Paradise ((Christianity) the abode of righteous souls after death)
Promised Land (the goal towards which Christians strive)
Valhalla; Walhalla ((Norse mythology) the hall in which the souls of heros slain in battle were received by Odin)
Antonym:
Hell ((Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment)
Derivation:
heavenly (relating to or inhabiting a divine heaven)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
Synonyms:
Eden; heaven; nirvana; paradise; promised land; Shangri-la
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("heaven" is a kind of...):
part; region (the extended spatial location of something)
Context examples:
Good heavens, Watson, what has become of any brains that God has given me?
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
By Heaven! if the devil stands at the door, I sail on Wednesday.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Heaven forgive them,” said the doctor; “'tis the mutineers!”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The miser cried out, “Oh, no! no! for heaven’s sake don’t listen to him! don’t listen to him!”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Everyone will enjoy this magical point in the month, for it could transport you from your usual, everyday sense of reality into one that’s made in heaven.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
It advanced from behind the mountains of Jura, and the thunder burst at once with frightful loudness from various quarters of the heavens.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I buried a little child of five years old only a day or two since,—a good little child, whose soul is now in heaven.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Lady Middleton looked as if she thanked heaven that SHE had never made so rude a speech.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
After the first perturbation of surprise had passed away, in a Good heaven!
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
No banners, cousin, to be 'blown by the night wind of heaven.'
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
