Usually means: Eternal peace, joy, afterlife realm.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word heaven:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. heaven: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. heaven: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heaven: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heaven: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Heaven, heaven: Vocabulary.com
  6. Heaven, heaven: Wordnik
  7. heaven: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Heaven, heaven: Wiktionary
  9. heaven: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. heaven: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. heaven: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. heaven: Dictionary.com
  13. heaven: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. heaven: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Heaven: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. heaven: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Heaven: Rhymezone
  19. heaven: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. heaven: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Heaven: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. heaven: Free Dictionary
  23. heaven: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. heaven: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. heaven: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Heaven (Inna song), Heaven (Jai album), Heaven (Jay-Z song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  27. Heaven: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  2. Heaven: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heaven: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heaven: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. HEAVEN: Acronym Finder
  3. heaven: Idioms
  4. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)

Religion (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Heaven: Easton Bible
  2. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  3. Heaven: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  4. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. heaven: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Heaven: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The sky, specifically:
noun:  (dated or poetic, now usually in the plural) The distant sky in which the sun, moon, and stars appear or move; the firmament; the celestial spheres.
noun:  (obsolete) The near sky in which weather, flying animals, etc. appear; (obsolete) the atmosphere; the climate.
noun:  (obsolete) A model displaying the movement of the celestial bodies, an orrery.
noun:  (religion) The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially:
noun:  (Christianity, usually capitalized) The abode of God and of the angels and saints in His presence.
noun:  (religion, by extension, often capitalized) The abode of the Abrahamic God; similar abodes of the gods in other religions and traditions, such as Mount Olympus.
noun:  (by extension, usually capitalized) Providence, the will of God or the council of the gods; fate.
noun:  (religion) The afterlife of the blessed dead, traditionally conceived as opposed to an afterlife of the wicked and unjust (compare hell); specifically:
noun:  (Christianity, Islam) Paradise, the afterlife of the souls who are not sent to a place of punishment or purification such as hell, purgatory, or limbo; the state or condition of being in the presence of God after death.
noun:  (religion, by extension, often capitalized) The afterlife of the blessed dead in other religions and traditions, such as the Pure Land or Elysium.
noun:  (by extension) Any paradise; any blissful place or experience.
noun:  (by extension) A state of bliss; a peaceful ecstasy.
noun:  (informal, with a modifier) Similarly blissful afterlives, places, or states for particular people, animals, or objects.
verb:  (obsolete) To transport to the abode of God, the gods, or the blessed.
verb:  (obsolete) To beatify, enchant, or please greatly.
verb:  (obsolete) To beautify, to make into a paradise.
noun:  (religion) The abode of God or the gods, when considered as a specific location; the abode of the blessed departed who reside in the presence of God or the gods
noun:  (religion) Providence, the will of God or the gods, when considered as a personal entity or specific aspect of the divine; Fate
noun:  (uncommon) Other extended senses of heaven as a specific place similar to the abode of God, the gods, or the blessed departed
noun:  (obsolete) The sky, particularly its distant aspect as the abode of the sun, moon, and stars
noun:  (Chinese mythology, semantic translation of 天 (tiān)) The supreme God or Nature which controls the universe.
noun:  (uncommon) A surname originating as a patronymic derived from Evan
noun:  (rare) A female given name from English of modern usage from the noun heaven.

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