A Persian word (pardes), properly meaning a "pleasure-ground" or "park" or "king's garden." (see EDEN.) It came in course of time to be used as a name for the world of happiness and rest hereafter (Luke 23:43; 2 Corinthians 12:4; Revelation 2:7). For "garden" in Genesis 2:8 the LXX. has "paradise."

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed after their creation.

2. (n.) The abode of sanctified souls after death.

3. (n.) A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight; hence, a state of happiness.

4. (n.) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.

5. (n.) A churchyard or cemetery.

6. (v. t.) To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.