heaven
US: /ˈhɛvən/
UK: /hˈɛvən/
UK: /hˈɛvən/
English Vietnamese dictionary
heaven /'hevn/
- danh từ
- thiên đường ((nghĩa đen) & (nghĩa bóng))
- to be in heaven: lên thiên đường, chết
- Ngọc hoàng, Thượng đế, trời
- it was the will of Heaven: đó là ý trời
- by heaven!; good heavens!: trời ơi!
- ((thường) số nhiều) (văn học) bầu trời, khoảng trời
- the broad expanse of heaven: khoảng trời rộng bao la
- the heavens: khoảng trời
- niềm hạnh phúc thần tiên
- to move haven and earth
- (xem) move
- in the seventh heaven
- vui sướng tuyệt trần
- seventh heaven
- heaven of heavens
- trên cao chín tầng mây (nơi Thượng đế ở, theo đạo Do thái)
- heaven of heavens
- thiên đường ((nghĩa đen) & (nghĩa bóng))
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun
1 (also Heaven) [U] (in some religions) the place believed to be the home of God where good people go when they die: the kingdom of heaven + I feel like I've died and gone to heaven.
2 [U, C] (informal) a place or situation in which you are very happy: This isn't exactly my idea of heaven! + It was heaven being away from the phone for a week. + The island is truly a heaven on earth. + It was very kind of you to let us come. Miranda was in heaven.
3 (Heaven) [U] (formal) God: It was the will of Heaven.
4 (the heavens) [pl.] (literary) the sky: Four tall trees stretched up to the heavens.
Idioms: (Good) Heavens!
Heavens above! (spoken) used to show that you are surprised or annoyed: Good heavens, what are you doing?
the heavens opened it began to rain heavily
more at FORBID, GOD, HELP v., HIGH adj., KNOW v., MOVE v., NAME n., SEVENTH, THANK
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 paradise, bliss, hereafter, nirvana, Abraham's bosom, Elysian Fields or Elysium, Valhalla, Zion, happy hunting-grounds, Avalon, Isles of the Blessed, the Blessed or Fortunate or Happy Isles or Islands:
Will I go to heaven when I die?
2 heavens. sky, skies, firmament, Literary welkin, empyrean:
The heavens opened and the rain started to pour down.
3 happiness, bliss, joy, rapture, ecstasy, paradise, contentment, seventh heaven, Eden, Garden of Eden, Utopia, heaven on earth, paradise on earth:
Darby said that his years with Joan had been sheer heaven.
Collocation dictionary
1 believed to be the home of God
VERB + HEAVEN
ascend to, go to
I feel like I've died and gone to heaven.
PREP.
from ~
Our child seemed a gift from heaven.
| in ~
(figurative) It was a marriage made in heaven.
PHRASES
the kingdom of heaven
2 place/situation in which you are very happy
ADJ.
absolute, sheer
It was sheer heaven being alone at last.
PREP.
in ~
The kids were in absolute heaven at the fair.
PHRASES
a heaven on earth
The island is truly a heaven on earth.
| sb's idea of heaven
Building up a tan by the pool with a good book is my idea of heaven.
Concise English dictionary
heavens'hevn
noun
+any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
+the abode of God and the angels
