Heaven Definition
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Etymology
From Middle English heven, from Old English heofon (“heaven, sky”), from Proto-Germanic *χimina-, *χimila- (“heaven, sky”), from Proto-Indo-European *k(')em-en-, *k(')em-er- (“sky, cloud”), from Proto-Indo-European base *k'am- (“cover, shroud, clothes”). Cognate with Low Saxon heven (“heaven”), Old Norse himinn (“heaven, sky”), Gothic (himins, “heaven, sky”), Dutch hemel (“heaven”), German Himmel (“heaven”), Cornish kommol (“cloud”), Breton koumoul (“cloud”). Related to chemise.
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Noun
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- (often in plural) The sky.
- (theology) The paradise of the afterlife in certain religions, considered to be the home of the god or gods of those religions.
- Mommy’s gone to heaven to be with God.
- (used without the article) A blissful place or experience.
- Soaking in a warm bath after a long day at work is sheer heaven.
Synonyms
- (sky): firmament, sky
- (paradise): paradise
- (entrance to heaven): pearly gates
- (blissful place or experience): delight, dream, paradise
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Derived terms
- for heaven's sake
- heaven forbid!, heaven forfend
- heavenise, heavenize
- heaven knows
- heavenly
- heaven-sent
- heavenwards
- hog heaven
- Kingdom of Heaven
- mana from heaven
- seventh heaven
- stink to high heaven
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Heaven, the Heavens or Seven Heavens, is a common religious cosmological or metaphysical term for the physical or transcendent place from which heavenly beings (such as a Sky deity, God, angels, King or Queen of Heaven, Heavenly Father or Heavenly Mother, heavenly saints or venerated ancestors) originate, are enthroned or inhabit. It is commonly believed that heavenly beings can descend to earth or take on earthly flesh and that earthly beings can ascend to Heaven in the afterlife or in exceptional cases enter Heaven alive. Heaven is often described as a "higher place", the holiest place, a Paradise, in contrast to Hell or the Underworld or the "low places", and universally or conditionally accessible by earthly beings according to various standards of divinity, goodness, piety, faith, or other virtues or right beliefs or simply the Will of God. Some believe in the possibility of a Heaven on Earth in a World to Come. It is most commonly referred to by Christians.