HEAVEN

Heaven

Heaven, the Heavens or Seven Heavens, is a common religious, cosmological or transcendent place from which heavenly beings originate, are enthroned or inhabit. It is commonly believed that heavenly beings can descend to earth or incarnate and that earthly beings can ascend to Heaven in the afterlife or, in exceptional cases, enter Heaven alive.

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heaven

Noun

  1. The sky, specifically:
    1. The distant sky in which the sun, moon, and stars appear or move; the firmament; the celestial spheres.
      1930 March, Nature, 179 2
The moon's path lies in that belt of the heavens known as the zodiac.
  1. The near sky in which weather, flying animals, &c. appear; the atmosphere; the climate
    ''', , ', IV i
The qualitie of mercie is not ſtraind,
it droppeth as the gentle raine from heauen
vpon the place beneath
  1. A model displaying the movement of the celestial bodies, an orrery
  1. The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky, specifically:
  1. The abode of God and of the angels and saints in His presence
    1667, , '''', I 263
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.
  1. The abode of God in Islam; similar abodes of the gods in other religions and traditions, such as Mount Olympus
    1594, , '''', IV iii 41
With Ioue in heauen, or some where else.
  1. Providence, the will of God or the council of the gods; fate
    1. The afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust (cf. hell), specifically:
  1. The afterlife of the souls who are not sent to a place of punishment or purification such as hell, purgatory, or limbo; the state or condition of being in the presence of God after death
    1. The afterlife of the blessed dead in Islam and in other religions and traditions, such as the Pure Land or Elysium
  1. Any paradise; any blissful place or experience
    1667, , '''', I 254–255
The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
  1. A state of bliss; a peaceful ecstasy
    1809 October 26, , Friend, 163
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!
  1. Similarly blissful afterlives, places, or states for particular people, animals, or objects
    2004 July 17, Western Mail (Cardiff), 15
Goronwy has gone to goldfish heaven where he is swimming in a beautiful clear blue ocean with all the other fishies.

Verb

  1. To transport to the abode of God, the gods, or the blessed
  2. To beatify, enchant, or please greatly
  3. To beautify, to make into a paradise


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