Entry Word: heaven

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a dwelling place of perfect bliss for the soul after death <prayed that the souls of the deceased would go to heaven>

Synonyms Elysium, kingdom come, paradise

Related Words empyrean; glory; otherworld

Phrases on high

Near Antonyms inferno; limbo, purgatory; hades, netherworld, underworld

Antonyms hell, perdition

2 a place or state of great happiness <compared to the old school, this new one is heaven> — see paradise 1
3 a state of overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion <she was in heaven the day she learned she was one of the finalists for the science scholarship> — see ecstasy
4 usually heavens pluralthe expanse of air surrounding the earth <the starry heavens> <the space shuttle gradually disappeared into the heavens> — see sky