B2 [U] in some religions, the place, sometimes imagined to be in the sky, where God or the gods live and where good people are believed to go after they die, so that they can enjoy perfect happinessHeaven B2 [U] informal a situation that gives you great pleasure: I just lay in the sun for a week and did nothing - it was heaven.Pleasure and happiness the heavens [plural] › the sky: We stared up at the heavens trying to see the comet.The Earth and outer space - general words