(figuratively) A very pleasant place, such as a place full of lush vegetation.
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an island paradise in the Caribbean
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Let me live here ever;So rare a wonder’d father and a wifeMakes this place Paradise.
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1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
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The reader cannot but judge of the irksomeness of this situation to a mind like mine, in being daily exposed to new hardships and impositions, after having seen many better days, and been as it were, in a state of freedom and plenty; added to which, every part of the world I had hitherto been in, seemed to me a paradise in comparison of the West Indies.
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1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 6, in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano[1], volume 1, London: for the author, page 243:
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“Each household will have to have a tap with water running out of it all the year round,” he said. “And not only palm trees, but fruit trees too and flower gardens. It won’t take so many years to turn Golema Mmidi into a paradise. […] ”
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1968, Bessie Head, chapter 8, in When Rain Clouds Gather[1], New York: Simon & Schuster, published 1969, page 114: