Word of the Day: Paradise

by Richard W Scott on June 24, 2010

 Paradise, n.

A  place of extreme beauty, delight, or happiness.

Jarand loved his new house, but it wasn’t until he went through the copse behind it, that he discovered the paradise of a meadow.

Alternate usage:

Some people make their living by their wits.  Me?  I’m a gambler.  I get my daily bread with a paradise.

How will you use paradise in a sentence today?




      
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Cindy June 24, 2010 at 9:43 am

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot with a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot …

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Loreen Lee June 24, 2010 at 12:09 pm

Another from Joni Mitchell: Thank you Cindy. I guess I have taken on the responsibility to find the complete lyrics. These are for you. Just so we have the reminder. This wouldn’t fit in with nrhatch’s zeitgeist though, because they charge ‘money’, grin grin. Hope a big yellow taxi doesn’t roll by and ‘take me away’!

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot,
With a pink hotel, a boutique,
And a swinging hot spot.
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.
And they charged all the people
A dollar and a half just to see ‘em.
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

Hey, farmer, farmer, put away that D.D.T., now!
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees, please!
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

Late last night I heard the screen door slam.
And a big yellow taxi took away my old man.
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone?
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

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italiancandy June 24, 2010 at 2:30 pm

my paradise was ruined when the storm encroached upon us.

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