Noun

(uncountable) Joy; merriment; mirth; gaiety; particularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast.

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, title= Travels and travails , passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee .}}

(uncountable) Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.

(music, countable) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry.

Noun

(en noun)

(chiefly, religion) Heaven; the abode of sanctified souls after death.

* Bible, Luke xxiii. 43

To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise .

* Longfellow

It sounds to him like her mother's voice, / Singing in Paradise .

(figuratively) A very pleasant place.

an island paradise in the Caribbean

(figuratively) A very positive experience.

(architecture) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, such as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.

A churchyard or cemetery.