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Paradise vs Fairyland - What's the difference?

paradise | fairyland |

As a proper noun paradise

is (religion) heaven.

As an adjective fairyland is

having qualities ascribed to fairies and their realm; fanciful, delicate, surreal, or diminutive.

As a noun fairyland is

the imaginary land or abode of fairies.

paradise

English

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.

    • Synonyms

    * haven * heaven * utopia

    Derived terms

    * bird of paradise * fool's paradise * grains of paradise * paradise duck * paradise flycatcher * paradisiac * paradisiacal * paradisiacally * Surfers Paradise * trouble in paradise

    Related terms

    * parvis

    See also

    * Arcadia * Avalon * Nirvana * Shangri-la

    Verb

    (paradis)
  • To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.
    • (Marston)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    fairyland

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having qualities ascribed to fairies and their realm; fanciful, delicate, surreal, or diminutive.
    • The children built a fairyland cottage out of gingerbread, decorated with gumdrops and peppermint sticks.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The imaginary land or abode of fairies.
  • * 2004 , Algernon Blackwood, A Prisoner in Fairyland , Kessinger Publishing, page 174 [http://books.google.com/books?id=F-OpOJaC7gEC&pg=PA174&dq=fairyland+date:1950-2008&lr=lang_en&as_brr=3&sig=4Y-Rlrc6NK9JVM-APplxfNDJyu8]
    • Not merely a foolish fairyland' of make-believe and dragons and princesses imprisoned in animals, but a ' fairyland the whole world needs - the sympathy of sweet endeavour, love, gentleness and sacrifice for others.

    Synonyms

    * dreamworld

    References

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