Paradise vs Shaheed - What's the difference?
paradise | shaheed |
(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.
An Islamic or Sikh martyr, one who has died fulfilling a religious commandment and is thus promised a place in Paradise.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 16, author=Joan Dupont, title=For a Director on the Rise, Sarajevo’s War Years Linger, work=New York Times
, passage=She has told the child that her father was a shaheed , a martyr, concealing the real story of her brutal conception. }}
As a proper noun paradise
is (religion) heaven.As a noun shaheed is
an islamic or sikh martyr, one who has died fulfilling a religious commandment and is thus promised a place in paradise.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)
Anagrams
* ----shaheed
English
Alternative forms
* shahidNoun
(en noun)citation