Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to heaven
Participle: heavened
Gerund: heavening
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | heaven |
| you | heaven |
| he;she;it | heavens |
| we | heaven |
| you | heaven |
| they | heaven |
Perfect
| I | have heavened |
| you | have heavened |
| he;she;it | has heavened |
| we | have heavened |
| you | have heavened |
| they | have heavened |
Past
| I | heavened |
| you | heavened |
| he;she;it | heavened |
| we | heavened |
| you | heavened |
| they | heavened |
Pluperfect
| I | had heavened |
| you | had heavened |
| he;she;it | had heavened |
| we | had heavened |
| you | had heavened |
| they | had heavened |
Future
| I | will heaven |
| you | will heaven |
| he;she;it | will heaven |
| we | will heaven |
| you | will heaven |
| they | will heaven |
Future Perfect
| I | will have heavened |
| you | will have heavened |
| he;she;it | will have heavened |
| we | will have heavened |
| you | will have heavened |
| they | will have heavened |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | heaven |
| you | heaven |
| he;she;it | heaven |
| we | heaven |
| you | heaven |
| they | heaven |
Perfect
| I | have heavened |
| you | have heavened |
| he;she;it | have heavened |
| we | have heavened |
| you | have heavened |
| they | have heavened |
Imperfect
| I | heavened |
| you | heavened |
| he;she;it | heavened |
| we | heavened |
| you | heavened |
| they | heavened |
Pluperfect
| I | had heavened |
| you | had heavened |
| he;she;it | had heavened |
| we | had heavened |
| you | had heavened |
| they | had heavened |
Conditional
Present
| I | would heaven |
| you | would heaven |
| he;she;it | would heaven |
| we | would heaven |
| you | would heaven |
| they | would heaven |
Perfect
| I | would have heavened |
| you | would have heavened |
| he;she;it | would have heavened |
| we | would have heavened |
| you | would have heavened |
| they | would have heavened |
Imperative
| you | heaven |
| we | Let's heaven |
| you | heaven |
Verbs conjugated like 'heaven'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'heaven'
haven,
heaten,
heave,
leaven,
braven,
cheapen,
craven,
daven,
deaden,
deafen,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E. heofon "home of God," earlier "sky," possibly from P.Gmc. *khemina- (cf. Low Ger. heben, O.N. himinn, Goth. himins, O.Fris. himul, Du. hemel, Ger. Himmel "heaven, sky"), from PIE base *kem-/*kam- "to cover" (cf. chemise). Plural use in sense of "sky" is probably from Ptolemaic theory of space composed of many spheres, but it was also formerly used in the same sense as the singular in Biblical language, as a translation of Heb. pl. shamayim. Heavenly "beautiful, divine" is from 1460, often (though not originally) with reference to the celestial "music of the spheres;" weakened sense of "excellent, enjoyable" is first recorded 1874.
2. From a wide variety of Middle English forms including hevene, heven, hevin, and hewin (“heaven, sky”), from Old English heofon, heofone (“heaven, sky”), from Proto-West Germanic *hebn (“heaven, sky”), of uncertain origin.
3. Cognate with Scots heiven, hewin (“heaven, sky”), Middle Dutch heven (“sky, heaven”), Low German Heven (“heaven, sky”), and possibly the rare Icelandic and Old Norse hifinn (“heaven, sky”), which are all probably dissimilated forms of the Germanic root which appears in Old Norse himinn (“heaven, sky”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌹𐌽𐍃 (himins, “heaven, sky”), Old Swedish himin, Old Danish himæn and probably also (in another variant form) Old Saxon himil, Old Dutch himil (modern Dutch hemel), and Old High German himil (German Himmel).
4. Accepting these as cognates, some scholars propose a further derivation from Proto-Germanic *himinaz (“cover, cloud cover, firmament, sky, heaven”). See: Low Saxon 'Heven'.
Sample Sentences
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Tom had no doubt of it at all; it did not surprise him in the least. If Eva had told him she had been to heaven, he would have thought it entirely probable.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] I want to give you something that, when you look at, you shall always remember me, I 'm going to give all of you a curl of my hair; and, when you look at it, think that I loved you and am gone to heaven, and that I want to see you all there. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ Get up, child, ” said Miss Ophelia, in a softened voice; “ don't cry so. Miss Eva is gone to heaven; she is an angel. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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The sudden light of joy that shone in Tom's face as he raised his hands to heaven, his emphatic “ Bless the Lord ! ” rather discomposed St. Clare; he did not like it that Tom should be so ready to leave him.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] heard his threats, and thought in his very soul that his hour was come, his heart swelled bravely in him, and he thought he could bear torture and fire, bear anything, with the vision of Jesus and heaven but just a step beyond; but, when he was gone, and the present excitement passed off, came back the pain of his bruised and weary limbs,—came back the sense of his utterly degraded, hopeless, [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)