Paradise vs Hades - What's the difference?
paradise | hades |
(chiefly, religion) Heaven; the abode of sanctified souls after death.
* Bible, Luke xxiii. 43
* Longfellow
(figuratively) A very pleasant place.
(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.
To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.
(Greek god) The god of the underworld and ruler of the dead, son of Cronus and Rhea, brother of Zeus and Poseidon.
(Greek mythology) The underworld, the domain of Hades, by transference from its god.
Sheol.
Hell.
As nouns the difference between paradise and hades
is that paradise is heaven; the abode of sanctified souls after death while hades is plural of lang=en.As verbs the difference between paradise and hades
is that paradise is to affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch while hades is third-person singular of hade.As proper nouns the difference between paradise and hades
is that paradise is heaven while Hades is the god of the underworld and ruler of the dead, son of Cronus and Rhea, brother of Zeus and Poseidon.paradise
English
Noun
(en noun)- To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise .
- It sounds to him like her mother's voice, / Singing in Paradise .
- an island paradise in the Caribbean
Synonyms
* haven * heaven * utopiaDerived terms
* bird of paradise * fool's paradise * grains of paradise * paradise duck * paradise flycatcher * paradisiac * paradisiacal * paradisiacally * Surfers Paradise * trouble in paradiseSee also
* Arcadia * Avalon * Nirvana * Shangri-laVerb
(paradis)- (Marston)
