HEAVEN • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Heaven

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/hˈɛvən/ Listen

Heaven

noun

Any place of complete bliss and delight and peace. Synonyms: Eden, nirvana, paradise, promised land, Shangri-la.

The abode of God and the angels.

See more definitions of Heaven...

See images of 'Heaven'

Antonyms of 'Heaven'

Etymology of 'Heaven'

Related searches:

Share |

"Heaven" Quotes from Famous Books

... knows how I yearn for the mountains And the river that runs between! Ah, well, I can wait—and the pastures Of heaven are always green. ...

— The Quest of the Simple Life • William J. Dawson

... and wide he goes Through empty heaven without repose; And in the blue and glowing days More thick than ...

— Modern British Poetry • Various

... this last, lingering ghost of summer," he said. "How lovingly the pearls and opals and amethysts of heaven linger on the crimsoning hills! See how the stream runs like a silver thread, laughing and singing, to join the grave river. We can not see the river from here, but we know how gravely it journeys to the sea. Can you not smell the odor of mint, of earth, ...

— The Grey Cloak • Harold MacGrath

... commanded one of his attendants, a black slave, to cut off the viceroy's head. This the fellow executed with a single stroke of his sabre, while the wretched man, perhaps then dying of his wounds, uttered no word, but with eyes imploringly turned up towards heaven, received the fatal blow.26 The head was then borne aloft on a pike, and some were brutal enough to pluck out the grey hairs from the beard and set them in their caps, as grisly trophies of their victory.27 The fate of the day was now ...

— History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William Hickling Prescott

... Petersburg working for the Bible Society when his mother writes from Norwich to tell him the news. John had died on 22nd November 1833. 'You are now my only hope,' she writes, '... do not grieve, my dear George. I trust we shall all meet in heaven. Put a crape on your hat for some time.' Had George Borrow's brother lived it might have meant very much in his life. There might have been nephews and nieces to soften the asperity of his later years. Who can say? Meanwhile, Lavengro contains no happier ...

— George Borrow and His Circle - Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of - Borrow And His Friends • Clement King Shorter

More quotes...