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Definition of Elysian fields
1. Noun. (Greek mythology) the abode of the blessed after death.
Generic synonyms: Heaven
Category relationships: Greek Mythology
Derivative terms: Elysian
Definition of Elysian fields
1. Proper noun. (context Classical mythology) Elysium; home of the blessed, after death. ¹
2. Proper noun. (idiomatic) A place or state of ideal happiness; paradise. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elysian Fields
Literary usage of Elysian fields
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poems by Edward Sandford Martin (1914)
"IN THE elysian fields WHAT ? You here! Why, old man, I never Felt more surprise
or more delight; Who would have dreamt that you would ever Parade around in ..."
2. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"... Ja '15 elysian fields of Paris—relics of civilization 101:87-8 Jl 15 '15
Exhibition defeating itself. 11 Lit Digest 51: snatched from Kultur. S. Dewey. ..."
3. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1897)
"IN WHICH WE STILL HOVER ABOUT THE elysian fields. HE describer and biographer of
my friend Mr. Philip Fir- min has tried to extenuate nothing ; and, I hope, ..."
4. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by Robert Browning, W. Tyas Harden, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman, William Groser (1880)
"THE elysian fields. I AM not forgetful in this dreary scene of the country which
whilst I lived iu the upper air, it was my whole aim to illustrate and ..."
5. Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use; a Study in Survivals by Daniel Berkeley Updike (1922)
"The ancients carried this notion even yet further, and supposed their heroes, in
the elysian fields, were fond of the very same WHEW the exertions of an ..."
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