"bliss" meaning in English

See bliss in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /blɪs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bliss.wav Forms: blisses [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪs Etymology: From Middle English bliss, from Old English bliss, variant of earlier blīds, blīþs (“joy, gladness”), from Proto-West Germanic *blīþisi (“joy, goodness, kindness”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|bliss}} Middle English bliss, {{inh|en|ang|bliss}} Old English bliss, {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*blīþisi||joy, goodness, kindness}} Proto-West Germanic *blīþisi (“joy, goodness, kindness”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} bliss (countable and uncountable, plural blisses)
  1. Perfect happiness. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Happiness Translations (perfect happiness): نَعِيم (naʕīm) [masculine] (Arabic), асало́да (asalóda) [feminine] (Belarusian), блажэ́нства (blažénstva) [neuter] (Belarusian), бла́гасць (bláhascʹ) [feminine] (Belarusian), блаже́нство (blažénstvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), 極樂 (Chinese Mandarin), 极乐 (jílè) (Chinese Mandarin), 喜悅 (Chinese Mandarin), 喜悦 (xǐyuè) (Chinese Mandarin), 福佑 (fúyòu) (Chinese Mandarin), 幸福 (xìngfú) (Chinese Mandarin), blaženost [feminine] (Czech), blaho [neuter] (Czech), gelukzaligheid [feminine] (Dutch), verrukking [feminine] (Dutch), beato (Esperanto), beateco (Esperanto), onni (Finnish), autuus (Finnish), béatitude [feminine] (French), félicité [feminine] (French), ნეტარება (neṭareba) (Georgian), განცხრომა (gancxroma) (Georgian), Glückseligkeit [feminine] (German), Glück [neuter] (German), 𐌰𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌲𐌴𐌹 (audagei) [feminine] (Gothic), ευδαιμονία (evdaimonía) [feminine] (Greek), μακαριότητα (makariótita) [feminine] (Greek), חֶדְוָה (ẖedvá) [feminine] (Hebrew), आनन्द (ānand) [masculine] (Hindi), boldogság (Hungarian), beatitudine (Italian), 幸福 (kōfuku) (alt: こうふく) (Japanese), 至福 (shifuku) (alt: しふく) (Japanese), блаженство (blaženstvo) [neuter] (Macedonian), kebahagiaan (Malay), hākoakoa (Maori), mākoakoa (Maori), manahau (Maori), lykksalighet (Norwegian Bokmål), блажєньство (blaženĭstvo) [neuter] (Old Church Slavonic), ēad [neuter] (Old English), ōd [neuter] (Old Saxon), سعادت (sa'âdat) (Persian), błogość [feminine] (Polish), błogostan [masculine] (Polish), júbilo [masculine] (Portuguese), gáudio [masculine] (Portuguese), êxtase [feminine] (Portuguese), beatitudine [feminine] (Romanian), euforie [feminine] (Romanian), extaz [neuter] (Romanian), блаже́нство (blažénstvo) [neuter] (Russian), блаженство [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), blaženstvo [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), blaženosť [feminine] (Slovak), blaho [neuter] (Slovak), blaženost [feminine] (Slovene), euforia [feminine] (Spanish), dicha [feminine] (Spanish), beatitud [feminine] (Spanish), lycksalighet [common-gender] (Swedish), lycka [common-gender] (Swedish), ความผาสุก (kwaam-pǎa-sùk) (Thai), mutluluk (Turkish), huzur (Turkish), erinç (Turkish), gönül rahatlığı (Turkish), dirlik (Turkish), блаже́нство (blažénstvo) [neuter] (Ukrainian), آنند (ānand) [masculine] (Urdu)
    Sense id: en-bliss-en-noun-FTPZZ3bO Categories (other): English calculator words, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Belarusian translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Gothic translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Hindi translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Malay translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Old Church Slavonic translations, Terms with Old English translations, Terms with Old Saxon translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Slovak translations, Terms with Slovene translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Thai translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations, Terms with Urdu translations Derived forms: blissdom, blissed, blissed up, blissen, blissful, blissless, bliss ninny, blissome, bliss out, bliss point, blissy, embliss, enbliss, follow one's bliss, ignorance is bliss, unbliss

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "bliss"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English bliss",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "bliss"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English bliss",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*blīþisi",
        "4": "",
        "5": "joy, goodness, kindness"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *blīþisi (“joy, goodness, kindness”)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English bliss, from Old English bliss, variant of earlier blīds, blīþs (“joy, gladness”), from Proto-West Germanic *blīþisi (“joy, goodness, kindness”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "blisses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "bliss (countable and uncountable, plural blisses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English calculator words",
          "parents": [
            "Calculator words",
            "Terms by orthographic property",
            "Terms by lexical property"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Arabic translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Belarusian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Czech translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Esperanto translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Georgian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Gothic translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Greek translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hebrew translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hindi translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Italian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Japanese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Macedonian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Malay translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Maori translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Old Church Slavonic translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Old English translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Old Saxon translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Persian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Romanian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Russian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Slovak translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Slovene translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Thai translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Turkish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Urdu translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Happiness",
          "orig": "en:Happiness",
          "parents": [
            "Emotions",
            "Mind",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "blissdom"
        },
        {
          "word": "blissed"
        },
        {
          "word": "blissed up"
        },
        {
          "word": "blissen"
        },
        {
          "word": "blissful"
        },
        {
          "word": "blissless"
        },
        {
          "word": "bliss ninny"
        },
        {
          "word": "blissome"
        },
        {
          "word": "bliss out"
        },
        {
          "word": "bliss point"
        },
        {
          "word": "blissy"
        },
        {
          "word": "embliss"
        },
        {
          "word": "enbliss"
        },
        {
          "word": "follow one's bliss"
        },
        {
          "word": "ignorance is bliss"
        },
        {
          "word": "unbliss"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The afternoon at the spa was utter bliss.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "a. 1851, William Wordsworth, “The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement”, in Henry [Hope] Reed, editor, The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Philadelphia, Pa.: Hayes & Zell, […], published 1860, →OCLC, page 188:",
          "text": "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, / But to be young was very heaven!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 116:",
          "text": "What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss—absolute bliss!—as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle, into every finger and toe?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, CYNE (lyrics and music), “Steady”, in Movements:",
          "text": "So who is this saying that money is bliss? / Your logic remiss / You and the devil about to kiss",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Perfect happiness."
      ],
      "id": "en-bliss-en-noun-FTPZZ3bO",
      "links": [
        [
          "happiness",
          "happiness"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "naʕīm",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "نَعِيم"
        },
        {
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "asalóda",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "асало́да"
        },
        {
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "blažénstva",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "блажэ́нства"
        },
        {
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "bláhascʹ",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "бла́гасць"
        },
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "blažénstvo",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "блаже́нство"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "極樂"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "jílè",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "极乐"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "喜悅"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "xǐyuè",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "喜悦"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "fúyòu",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "福佑"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "xìngfú",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "幸福"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "blaženost"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "blaho"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "gelukzaligheid"
        },
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "verrukking"
        },
        {
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "beato"
        },
        {
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "beateco"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "onni"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "autuus"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "béatitude"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "félicité"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "neṭareba",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "ნეტარება"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "gancxroma",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "განცხრომა"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Glückseligkeit"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Glück"
        },
        {
          "code": "got",
          "lang": "Gothic",
          "roman": "audagei",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "𐌰𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌲𐌴𐌹"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "evdaimonía",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "ευδαιμονία"
        },
        {
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "makariótita",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "μακαριότητα"
        },
        {
          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "ẖedvá",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "חֶדְוָה"
        },
        {
          "code": "hi",
          "lang": "Hindi",
          "roman": "ānand",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "आनन्द"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "boldogság"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "beatitudine"
        },
        {
          "alt": "こうふく",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "kōfuku",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "幸福"
        },
        {
          "alt": "しふく",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "shifuku",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "至福"
        },
        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "blaženstvo",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "блаженство"
        },
        {
          "code": "ms",
          "lang": "Malay",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "kebahagiaan"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "hākoakoa"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "mākoakoa"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "manahau"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "lykksalighet"
        },
        {
          "code": "cu",
          "lang": "Old Church Slavonic",
          "roman": "blaženĭstvo",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "блажєньство"
        },
        {
          "code": "ang",
          "lang": "Old English",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "ēad"
        },
        {
          "code": "osx",
          "lang": "Old Saxon",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "ōd"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "sa'âdat",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "سعادت"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "błogość"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "błogostan"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "júbilo"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "gáudio"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "êxtase"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "beatitudine"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "euforie"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "extaz"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "blažénstvo",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "блаже́нство"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "блаженство"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "blaženstvo"
        },
        {
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "blaženosť"
        },
        {
          "code": "sk",
          "lang": "Slovak",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "blaho"
        },
        {
          "code": "sl",
          "lang": "Slovene",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "blaženost"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "euforia"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "dicha"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "beatitud"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "lycksalighet"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "lycka"
        },
        {
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "kwaam-pǎa-sùk",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "ความผาสุก"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "mutluluk"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "huzur"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "erinç"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "gönül rahatlığı"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "word": "dirlik"
        },
        {
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "blažénstvo",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "блаже́нство"
        },
        {
          "code": "ur",
          "lang": "Urdu",
          "roman": "ānand",
          "sense": "perfect happiness",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "آنند"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/blɪs/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪs"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bliss.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/81/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-bliss.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-bliss.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/81/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-bliss.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-bliss.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bliss"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "blissdom"
    },
    {
      "word": "blissed"
    },
    {
      "word": "blissed up"
    },
    {
      "word": "blissen"
    },
    {
      "word": "blissful"
    },
    {
      "word": "blissless"
    },
    {
      "word": "bliss ninny"
    },
    {
      "word": "blissome"
    },
    {
      "word": "bliss out"
    },
    {
      "word": "bliss point"
    },
    {
      "word": "blissy"
    },
    {
      "word": "embliss"
    },
    {
      "word": "enbliss"
    },
    {
      "word": "follow one's bliss"
    },
    {
      "word": "ignorance is bliss"
    },
    {
      "word": "unbliss"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "bliss"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English bliss",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "bliss"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English bliss",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*blīþisi",
        "4": "",
        "5": "joy, goodness, kindness"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *blīþisi (“joy, goodness, kindness”)",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English bliss, from Old English bliss, variant of earlier blīds, blīþs (“joy, gladness”), from Proto-West Germanic *blīþisi (“joy, goodness, kindness”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "blisses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "bliss (countable and uncountable, plural blisses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English calculator words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Middle English",
        "English terms derived from Old English",
        "English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
        "English terms inherited from Middle English",
        "English terms inherited from Old English",
        "English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:English/ɪs",
        "Rhymes:English/ɪs/1 syllable",
        "Terms with Arabic translations",
        "Terms with Belarusian translations",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Esperanto translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Georgian translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Gothic translations",
        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Hebrew translations",
        "Terms with Hindi translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Malay translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Maori translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
        "Terms with Old Church Slavonic translations",
        "Terms with Old English translations",
        "Terms with Old Saxon translations",
        "Terms with Persian translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
        "Terms with Slovak translations",
        "Terms with Slovene translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Thai translations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations",
        "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
        "Terms with Urdu translations",
        "en:Happiness"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The afternoon at the spa was utter bliss.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "a. 1851, William Wordsworth, “The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement”, in Henry [Hope] Reed, editor, The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Philadelphia, Pa.: Hayes & Zell, […], published 1860, →OCLC, page 188:",
          "text": "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, / But to be young was very heaven!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 116:",
          "text": "What can you do if you are thirty and, turning the corner of your own street, you are overcome, suddenly, by a feeling of bliss—absolute bliss!—as though you'd suddenly swallowed a bright piece of that late afternoon sun and it burned in your bosom, sending out a little shower of sparks into every particle, into every finger and toe?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, CYNE (lyrics and music), “Steady”, in Movements:",
          "text": "So who is this saying that money is bliss? / Your logic remiss / You and the devil about to kiss",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Perfect happiness."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "happiness",
          "happiness"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/blɪs/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪs"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bliss.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/81/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-bliss.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-bliss.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/81/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-bliss.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-bliss.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "naʕīm",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "نَعِيم"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "asalóda",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "асало́да"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "blažénstva",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "блажэ́нства"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "bláhascʹ",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "бла́гасць"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "blažénstvo",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "блаже́нство"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "極樂"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "jílè",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "极乐"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "喜悅"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xǐyuè",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "喜悦"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fúyòu",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "福佑"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xìngfú",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "幸福"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "blaženost"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "blaho"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gelukzaligheid"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "verrukking"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "beato"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "beateco"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "onni"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "autuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "béatitude"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "félicité"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "neṭareba",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "ნეტარება"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "gancxroma",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "განცხრომა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Glückseligkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Glück"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "audagei",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "𐌰𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌲𐌴𐌹"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "evdaimonía",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ευδαιμονία"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "makariótita",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "μακαριότητα"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "ẖedvá",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "חֶדְוָה"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "ānand",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "आनन्द"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "boldogság"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "beatitudine"
    },
    {
      "alt": "こうふく",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kōfuku",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "幸福"
    },
    {
      "alt": "しふく",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shifuku",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "至福"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "blaženstvo",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "блаженство"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "kebahagiaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "hākoakoa"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "mākoakoa"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "manahau"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "lykksalighet"
    },
    {
      "code": "cu",
      "lang": "Old Church Slavonic",
      "roman": "blaženĭstvo",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "блажєньство"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ēad"
    },
    {
      "code": "osx",
      "lang": "Old Saxon",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ōd"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "sa'âdat",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "سعادت"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "błogość"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "błogostan"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "júbilo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gáudio"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "êxtase"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "beatitudine"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "euforie"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "extaz"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "blažénstvo",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "блаже́нство"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "блаженство"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "blaženstvo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "blaženosť"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "blaho"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "blaženost"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "euforia"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dicha"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "beatitud"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "lycksalighet"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "lycka"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "kwaam-pǎa-sùk",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "ความผาสุก"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "mutluluk"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "huzur"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "erinç"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "gönül rahatlığı"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "word": "dirlik"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "blažénstvo",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "блаже́нство"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "ānand",
      "sense": "perfect happiness",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "آنند"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bliss"
}

Download raw JSONL data for bliss meaning in English (12.8kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.