a place of perfect beauty and happiness existing on earth as opposed to in heaven
She had turned the valley into an earthly paradise.
Many people thought of this place as an earthly paradise.
Examples of 'earthly paradise' in a sentence
earthly paradise
An exotic earthly paradise you might think.
The Sun (2014)
For a moment, he thought he had stumbled on the earthly paradise.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Nature tolerates man, and the result is an earthly paradise.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
But for club members, it is an earthly paradise.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He bought the land in 1925 for 5,000 and set about creating his version of earthly paradise; an idealised coastal settlement of his wildest imagination.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Rarely do these eager dupes stop to wonder why the populace of this earthly paradise needs the extra cash.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
How will we know if our earthly paradise is coming to pieces, if we don't know how was put together?
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Lapped by tropical seas, the chain of coral islands could have become an earthly paradise for the descendants of a once-exalted tsar.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
A basic income will ensure that we can feed and clothe ourselves in this earthly paradise.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Columbus had found an earthly paradise in unknown seas, they believed, with emerald forests and cascading waters.