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🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

paradisiaque

Pronunciation / Transliteration: pa.ra.di.zjak

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Paradisal/ˌpær.əˈdaɪ.zəl/
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Nous avons passé des vacances dans un cadre paradisiaque."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Resembling, characteristic of, or suitable for paradise; supremely blissful, beautiful, or delightful.

    "They spent their honeymoon in a paradisal resort surrounded by turquoise waters and white sand."
  2. 2

    Relating to or constituting Eden or heaven.

    "The poets of that era often yearned for a return to a paradisal state of innocence."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Late Middle English, originating from Old French and Late Latin 'paradisus', ultimately tracing back to the Avestan 'pairidaeza' meaning 'enclosure' or 'paradise'. The adjectival suffix '-al' was added in the 17th century to denote characteristics resembling or pertaining to paradise.

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