heaven
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- //ˈhɛvən//
- /[ˈhɛvn̩]/
The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially: The abode of God and of the angels and saints in His presence.
sostantivo
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desuetoThe sky, specifically: The distant sky in which the sun, moon, and stars appear or move; the firmament; the celestial spheres.
All that is vnder the heauen.
The ordinaunce...made such a great noyse and thunderyng that it seemed the heaven would have fallen.
In ascending orderly vpwardes...The first is the Spheare of the Moone...The seuenth the Spheare of Saturne, The eight the Spheare of the fixed Starres, commonly called the firmament. The ninth is called the second moueable or Christall heauen, The tenth is called the first moueable, and the eleuenth is called the Emperiall heauen, where God and his Angels are said to dwell.
What obscured light the heauens did grant.
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obsoletoThe sky, specifically: The near sky in which weather, flying animals, etc. appear; (obsolete) the atmosphere; the climate.
Everie...Countrie, by the nature of the place, the climate of the Heaven, and the influence of the starres hath certaine vertues.
The qualitie of mercie is not ſtraind, it droppeth as the gentle raine from heauen vpon the place beneath
Fellow-believers...fed the birds of heaven with the carcases of pious and reverend Church-men.
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obsoletoThe sky, specifically: A model displaying the movement of the celestial bodies, an orrery.
Euery man cannot, with Archimedes, make a heauen of brasse.
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The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially: The abode of God and of the angels and saints in His presence.
And there was a battel in heauen. Michael & his Angels foght againſt the dragon, and the dragon foght & his Angels. But they preuailed not, nether was their place founde anie more in heauen.
Conſider firſt that the excommunicated Prelate ſaith... Kings are not immediatly from God, as by any ſpeciall Ordinance ſent from Heaven by the miniſtery of Angels and Prophets, there were but ſome few ſuch, as Moſes, Saul, David, etc.
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.
Christ's coming from the heavens has entered into the life of humanity as the Founder of the world to come.
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The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially: The abode of the Abrahamic God; similar abodes of the gods in other religions and traditions, such as Mount Olympus.
With Ioue in heauen, or some where else.
As he [Muhammad] was returning, in the fourth Heaven, Moses advised him to goe back to God.
Like the Buddhas, they [the Jains] believe that there is a plurality of heavens and hells.
The heaven of Siva is in the midst of the eternal snows and glaciers of Keilás, one of the highest and deepest groups of the stupendous summits of Hémaláya.
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The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially: Providence, the will of God or the council of the gods; fate.
[…]he cannot thriue, Vnlesse her prayers, whom heauen delights to heare And loues to grant, repreeue him from the wrath Of greatest Iustice.
After that thou shalt haue knowen that the heauens doe rule.
[…]The will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven.
Heaven commands thine arm To lift the sure-destroying sword!
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The afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust (compare hell); specifically
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The afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust (compare hell); specifically: Paradise, the afterlife of the souls who are not sent to a place of punishment or purification such as hell, purgatory, or limbo; the state or condition of being in the presence of God after death.
Teache the people to gett heuen with fastynge.
...what I speake My body shall make good vpon this earth, Or my diuine soule answer it in heauen.
Wee haue a great high Priest, that is passed into the heauens.
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The afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust (compare hell); specifically: The afterlife of the blessed dead in other religions and traditions, such as the Pure Land or Elysium.
The belief in ascending to Heaven after death became widespread in the Han dynasty.
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Any paradise; any blissful place or experience.
Ile follow thee and make a heauen of hell.
England, that was formerly the heaven, would be now the hell for women.
The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
Such a shop as that...would be quite a heaven upon earth to me.
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A state of bliss; a peaceful ecstasy.
Husbandes are in heauen...whose wiues scold not.
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!
He would just stare at me and say, “You are beautiful, you are so beautiful.” I was in heaven hearing this.
We're in heaven.
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informaleSimilarly blissful afterlives, places, or states for particular people, animals, or objects.
Perhaps it has gone to the dog heaven, and is wagging somewhere in glory.
His pet name for Easthampton is ‘Goose-heaven’, and he harps upon the idea eternally.
One gray beard who found the gates closed shinned up the fifteen foot fence...and dropped into the baseball heaven he was seeking.
The Dave Clark 5 deserve a place in Rock & Roll Heaven right along there beside Question Mark & The Mysterians, the Standells, Count Five, the Troggs, and the Music Machine.
Etimologia
From a wide variety of Middle English forms including hevene, heven, hevin, and hewin (“heaven, sky”), from Old English heofon, heofone (“heaven, sky”), from Proto-West Germanic *hebn (“heaven, sky”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots heiven, hewin (“heaven, sky”), Middle Dutch heven (“sky, heaven”), Low German Heven (“heaven, sky”), and possibly the rare Icelandic and Old Norse hifinn (“heaven, sky”), which are all probably dissimilated forms of the Germanic root which appears in Old Norse himinn (“heaven, sky”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌹𐌽𐍃 (himins, “heaven, sky”), Old Swedish himin, Old Danish himæn and probably also (in another variant form) Old Saxon himil, Old Dutch himil (modern Dutch hemel), and Old High German himil (German Himmel). Accepting these as cognates, some scholars propose a further derivation from Proto-Germanic *himinaz (“cover, cloud cover, firmament, sky, heaven”).
verbo
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obsoletoTo transport to the abode of God, the gods, or the blessed.
He heauens himselfe on earth, & for a litle pelfe cousens himselfe of blisse.
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obsoletoTo beatify, enchant, or please greatly.
They [Byron's Tales]...enraptured the public and heavened Murray.
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obsoletoTo beautify, to make into a paradise.
aggettivo
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obsoletoBeing heavenly.
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heaven · The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially: The abode of God and of the angels and saints in His presence.
Heaven · The abode of God or the gods, when considered as a specific…heavenly · Of or pertaining to Heaven, the eternal celestial abode of…Heavenly · A female given name.