The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up --flaked up, with rose-water snow.
Definition of PARADOX for Kids. 1. : a statement that seems to say opposite things and yet is perhaps true. 2. : a person or thing having qualities that seem to be opposite.
plural paradoxes. Learner's definition of PARADOX. 1. [count] a : something (such as a situation) that is made up of two opposite things and that seems impossible but is actually true or possible. It is a paradox that computers need maintenance so often, since they are meant to save people time.