heaven

CEFRB1

/ˈhɛvən/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A place believed to be the home of God after death.

  2. 02

    noun

    A place or situation of great happiness.

Examples

  • The stars shone brightly in the dark night heaven.

  • Marriage is made in heaven.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • [ˈhɛvn̩]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The sky, specifically:

  2. The near sky in which weather, flying animals, etc. appear; (obsolete) the atmosphere; the climate.

  3. A model displaying the movement of the celestial bodies, an orrery.

More examples

In context

  • Marriages are made in heaven.

  • Above is Heaven, Below are Suzhou and Hangzhou

  • All that is vnder the heauen.

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Origin

noun

From a wide variety of Middle English forms including hevene, heven, hevin, and hewin (“heaven, sky”), from Old English heofon, heofone (“heaven, sky”), from Proto-West Germanic *hebn (“heaven, sky”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots heiven, hewin (“heaven, sky”), Middle Dutch heven (“sky, heaven”), Low German Heven (“heaven, sky”), and possibly the rare Icelandic and Old Norse hifinn (“heaven, sky”), which are all probably dissimilated forms of the Germanic root which appears in Old Norse himinn (“heaven, sky”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌹𐌽𐍃 (himins, “heaven, sky”), Old Swedish himin, Old Danish himæn and probably also (in another variant form) Old Saxon himil, Old Dutch himil (modern Dutch h...