(n.) The expanse of space surrounding the earth; esp., that which seems to be over the earth like a great arch or dome; the firmament; the sky; the place where the sun, moon, and stars appear; -- often used in the plural in this sense.
(n.) The dwelling place of the Deity; the abode of bliss; the place or state of the blessed after death.
(n.) The sovereign of heaven; God; also, the assembly of the blessed, collectively; -- used variously in this sense, as in No. 2.
(n.) Any place of supreme happiness or great comfort; perfect felicity; bliss; a sublime or exalted condition; as, a heaven of delight.
(v. t.) To place in happiness or bliss, as if in heaven; to beatify.
Example Sentences:
(1) It sells itself to British tourists as a holiday heaven of golden beaches, flamenco dresses and well-stocked sherry bars, but southern Andalucía – home to the Costa del Sol – has now become the focus of worries about the euro.
(2) It seems to have brought his own beliefs into sharper focus: "Watching the film, and I've seen many cuts, I'm a guy who fights the idea of heaven but what I do respect is that there is a greater power than anything we understand, and for me the film is about that.
(3) Oh, heavens no, it would be too depressing, and it was East German territory anyway.
(4) The best charm shows water next to Heaven and then items representing qualities of Air, Earth and Water.
(5) I knew I could get 58 mid and I knew that, if the heavens were on my side, I could get a 58 low but to be the first person under 58 ...
(6) The facial appearance is similar to a Renaissance cherub with its gaze toward heaven.
(7) "All the talk of heaven and hell and redemption helped to start people talking," says Tharcisse.
(8) And if you get killed, then … you’ll enter heaven, God willing, and Allah will take care of those you’ve left behind.” Hijra is an Arabic word meaning “emigration”, evoking the prophet Muhammad’s historic escape from Mecca, where assassins were plotting to kill him, to Medina.
(9) The belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a "fairy story" for people afraid of death, Stephen Hawking has said.
(10) Monk insisted Gomis deserved to be credited with the goal – “he covered every blade of grass, I think” – and applauded his gesture in grabbing a French tricolour from the touchline and waving it to the heavens in solidarity with those who lost their lives in Paris.
(11) One official wrote: "An article like this would be a heaven-sent opportunity to those who wish to get maximum publicity out of this incident to argue that the coroner was biased and for this reason the inquest was unsound."
(12) He huffed and puffed, gazed at the heavens at times, and at one point he accused the country’s foremost human rights officer of verballing him.
(13) He said two pieces of evidence were crucial in persuading the jury that Samsung had intentionally copied elements of Apple's iPhone functionality: minutes of a meeting in South Korea with Google, which had warned senior Samsung executives to "pull back" from their tablet designs because they were too close to Apple's; and internal emails from Samsung executives which said that the difference between the iPhone and Samsung's smartphones was "heaven and earth", and that the two needed to be moved closer.
(14) In that same 2010 fundraiser speech, Perry described his mission as "bigger than any law or policy," of being engaged in a struggle not of "flesh and blood," but "against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms".
(15) So while Labrinth, Heaven 17, The Proclaimers and Billy Bragg are playing on stage, kids will probably be more interested in the freesports park, Mr Tumble, the new Dance Space, junior football tournament, Insect Circus and kids' comedy club, to name but a few of the dozens of attractions.
(16) But while the public is convinced it doesn’t go far enough, the major parties have actually resisted most calls for greater scrutiny – independent oversight or, heaven forbid, a federal version of Icac .
(17) She will be looking down now from the heaven she undoubtedly believed in, and smiling.
(18) The village primary school and the heavens were going to open at the same time – and both were going to be equally welcome.
(19) While others decried his work, he wrote that his paintings “move and mingle among the pale stars, and rise up into the brightness of the illimitable heaven, whose soft, and blue eye gazes down into the deep waters of the sea for ever”.
(20) He added: “James Wharton is an ambitious politician – but heaven help him if he ever has to deal with a truly hostile press.
Purgatory
Definition:
(a.) Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory.
(n.) A state or place of purification after death; according to the Roman Catholic creed, a place, or a state believed to exist after death, in which the souls of persons are purified by expiating such offenses committed in this life as do not merit eternal damnation, or in which they fully satisfy the justice of God for sins that have been forgiven. After this purgation from the impurities of sin, the souls are believed to be received into heaven.
Example Sentences:
(1) They'd been on court just half an hour short of their four hours and 50 minutes purgatory in Melbourne and Murray could smell history in his nostrils – or was it cordite?
(2) She is still reliant on a fairy godmother ( Helena Bonham Carter ) to help wrest her from this servile purgatory, and her life ambitions still seem to include marrying a prince and wearing a very nice dress.
(3) Aisikaier's life at the park is placid, if not slightly purgatorial.
(4) He said: “I think the defendants have gone through purgatory.
(5) In old news we’ve all heard before, United will ramp up their efforts to lure Gareth Bale from a Real Madrid purgatory he has stoically shown no obvious desire to abandon, while they are also interested Wolfsburg’s Kevin De Bruyne .
(6) Hazell describes the purgatory of a mixed recycling box as it gets “taken off to a big shed with lots of conveyor belts.
(7) Despite his upcoming trip to baseball purgatory, Braun continues to play with words – even though the game, at least for this season, is over.
(8) Scientists at the US space agency said the craft had gone into a region at the edge of the solar system, describing it as "a kind of cosmic purgatory".
(9) In All Hallows' Eve, the focus is on forgiveness and the opportunity to correct relational mistakes while one is in a purgatorial state.
(10) I hate the sin but ah love the sinner," honked the freshly convicted Fiz, face sodden with snot, and with a final grimace of embarrassment John Stape gurgled his last, his newly bearded soul presumably passing through purgatory's rigorous decontamination process before ascending to the Dead Soap Bastard sty in the sky.
(11) Unfortunately for Profumo, in his quiet pursuit of personal redemption, he could not escape the public purgatory imposed by his 1963 image as an errant playboy-politician.
(12) According to Plazzi, both of these can be seen in Dante's work, particularly his 14th-century epic poem in which his narrator travels through hell, purgatory and heaven.
(13) That has left thousands of people trapped in a form of purgatory, stripped of the ability to say a final farewell to those they loved.
(14) An indefinite interim deal, May said, would be “permanent political purgatory” and she wanted “nothing that leaves us half-in, half-out”.
(15) For Baddour’s group of mostly twenty-somethings, it was a kind of purgatory, a limbo between their hellish life in Syria and a better future they hoped for in Europe.
(16) Frankly, it's hard to imagine an actor with a better chance of rescuing Aquaman from superhero purgatory.
(17) It's a type of purgatory.” The truly unlucky are the estimated 700 to 1,000 people who dwell in the holes and shacks by the riverbed, a mile-long, stinking stretch of sewage and debris known as El Bordo from which the US, in the form of shopping malls and flags, can be seen peeking over a graffiti-covered fence.
(18) After 49 days, another ceremony is held for the souls of the dead to escape Bardo, or purgatory, and move on to their next life.
(19) Wes Brown and Phil Bardsley are emerging from very different forms of rehabilitation but these two seemingly reborn Manchester United old boys revelled in reinforcing the idea that trips to Wearside spell purgatory for Manchester City .
(20) Meanwhile, Daca youth are safe (for now), but locked in a legal purgatory, as family members are forced into exile and the futures of their own reprieves remains uncertain.