Elysium
[i'liziəm]
Definition
(noun.) (Greek mythology) the abode of the blessed after death.
(noun.) a place or condition of ideal happiness.
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Definition
(n.) A dwelling place assigned to happy souls after death; the seat of future happiness; Paradise.
(n.) Hence, any delightful place.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. The Elysian fields, islands of the blest.[2]. Paradise, Eden, delightful place.
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Definition
n. (myth.) among the Greeks the abode of the blessed after death: any delightful place.—adj. Elys′ian pertaining to Elysium: delightful: glorious.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. An imaginary delightful country which the ancients foolishly believed to be inhabited by the spirits of the good. This ridiculous and mischievous fable was swept off the face of the earth by the early Christians—may their souls be happy in Heaven!
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Examples
- But I have considered, and counted the coSt. I go to _Liberia_, not as an Elysium of romance, but as to _a field of work_. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The young are seldom in Elysium, for their desires, outstripping possibility, leave them as poor as a moneyless debtor. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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