Paradise, town, United States

Paradise, uninc. town (1990 pop. 25,406), Butte co., N central Calif., in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada range. It is mainly residential with a growing population. Cattle are raised and fruits, olives, nuts, wheat, and nursery stock are grown. Gold was discovered nearby in 1859.

Paradise, in religion

Paradise: see Eden, Garden of Eden, Garden of, in the Bible, first home to humankind. In it were the trees of life and of the knowledge of good and evil. Having eaten the forbidden fruit of the latter tree, Adam and Eve were banished from the garden and God's presence.
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An earlier family of display adapters for PCs from the Paradise subsidiary of Western Digital Corporation, Irvine, CA.

paradise

1. heaven as the ultimate abode or state of the righteous

2. Islam the sensual garden of delights that the Koran promises the faithful after death

3. (according to some theologians) the intermediate abode or state of the just prior to the Resurrection of Jesus, as in Luke 23:43

4. the place or state of happiness enjoyed by Adam before the first sin; the Garden of Eden

Paradise

poetic name for heaven. [World Rel.: NCE, 1213]

See : Heaven

Bali

Indonesian island; thought of as garden of Eden. [Geography: NCE, 215–216]

Brigadoon

magical Scottish village that materializes once every 100 years. [Am. Music: Payton, 100–101]

Canaan

ancient region on Jordan river; promised by God to Abraham. [O.T.: Genesis 12:5–10]

Earthly Paradise

place of beauty, peace, and immortality, believed in the Middle Ages to exist in some undiscovered land. [Eur. Legend: Benét, 298]

Eden

earthly garden of luxury; abode of Adam and Eve. [O.T.: Genesis 2:8]

Elysium

(Elysian Fields) abode of the blessed in afterlife. [Gk. & Rom. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary]

Garden of the Hesperides

quiet garden of the gods where golden apples grew. [Gk. Lit.: Hippolytus; Gk. Myth.: Gaster, 25]

Happy Hunting Ground

paradise for American Indians. [Am. Culture: Jobes, 724]

Happy Valley

beautiful spot in Kashmir’s Jhelum Valley. [Indian Hist.: Payton, 300]

hissu

where trees bear fruits of lapis lazuli. [Babylonian Lit.: Gilgamesh]

land of milk and honey

proverbial ideal of plenty and happiness. [Western Cult.: Brewer Dictionary]

Land of the Lotophagi

African land where eating lotos fruit produced amnesia and indolence. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey; Br. Lit.: “The Lotos-Eaters” in Norton, 733–736]

Nirvana

eternal bliss and the end of all earthly suffering. [Indian Religion: Jobes, 1175]

Shangri-la

utopia hidden in the Himalayas. [Br. Lit.: Lost Horizon]

Suhkavati

garden of jeweled trees and dulcet-voiced birds. [Buddhist Myth.: Gaster, 24]

Timbuktu

fabled land of wealth and splendor. [Eur. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1084]

Tlapallan

land of luxuriance and red sunrise. [Aztec Myth.: Gaster, 25]

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