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UK [ˈhev(ə)n] / US noun
1)
a) Heaven the place where God is believed to live. Some people believe that good people go to Heaven when they die and bad people go to Hell

Christians believe that Jesus ascended into Heaven.

b) literary God or God's power

I pray to Heaven it may be so.

2)
a) the heavens
[plural] literary the sky

The heavens shook with thunder.

b) the place where God or the gods are believed to live
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for heaven's sake/sakes — spoken used for emphasizing that you are annoyed or impatient with someone

Oh, for heaven's sake! Anyone would think this was difficult!

heaven help us/them/the person who etc — spoken used for saying that if something happens, the result will be very bad for the person mentioned

Heaven help anyone who tries to stop them.

heaven (only/alone) knows — spoken used for emphasizing what you are saying; heaven knows how/what/why etc

spoken used for saying that you do not know something or cannot imagine it; heaven knows how much/many/long spoken used for emphasizing that something has happened a lot or too much


It was her first holiday in years, and heaven knows she needed it.

Heaven knows what will happen now.

I've had heaven knows how many people in here looking for you!

heavens/good heavens — spoken used for showing that you are very surprised; spoken used for emphasizing what you are saying

Good heavens, is that the time?

"Is that dog yours?" "Heavens, no."

how/who/what etc in heaven's name — spoken used for strongly emphasizing a question

Where in heaven's name did you get that hat?

move heaven and earth (to do something) — to do everything that it is possible to do in order to make something happen

I would move heaven and earth to help someone who really needed it.

smell/stink to high heaven — informal to smell extremely bad

See:

English dictionary. 2014.

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