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An example use of heaven in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… like a happy with that heaven is all …”
Heaven is a place where God lives.
the word heaven occurs in english on average 65.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.