1. any place of complete bliss and delight and peace • Syn: paradise, nirvana, heaven, promised land, Shangri-la • Derivationally related forms: paradisiacal (for: paradise), paradisal (for: paradise) • Hypernyms: region, part 2. 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) • Syn: Garden of Eden • Hypernyms: Heaven