/blɪs/
OriginFrom Middle English bliss, from Old English bliss, variant of earlier blīds, blīþs (“joy, gladness”), from Proto-West Germanic *blīþisi (“joy, goodness, kindness”).
- countable, uncountablePerfect happiness.
“The afternoon at the spa was utter bliss.”
“Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, / But to be young was very heaven!”
“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 tha”
- An English surname transferred from the nickname originating as a nickname.
- rareA unisex given name from English.
“"Mother doesn't seem to especially like her little granddaughter as it is, even named 'Edna Louise'. D'you think she's going to like her better, named 'Bliss' like some sexpot pop star or some Indian-”
- a programming language used for systems programming primarily on computers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation. Bliss is a parallel language to C, both being derived from B and BCPL
- A ghost town in California.
- A minor city in Gooding County, Idaho.
- An unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky.
- A township in Emmet County, Michigan, named after Aaron T. Bliss.
- An unincorporated community in Washington County, Missouri.
- A census-designated place in the town of Eagle, Wyoming County, New York.
- Former name of Old Bliss, Oklahoma.
Formsblisses(plural) · Blish(alternative)