HOW TO PRONOUNCE
elysium
/ɪˈlɪʒ.i.əm/
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What does elysium mean?
proper noun
- The home of the blessed after death.
- A place or state of ideal happiness; paradise.
- A region in the northern hemisphere of Mars.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɪˈlɪʒ.i.əm/
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/ɪˈli.ʒi.əm//ɪˈlɪz.i.əm//ɪˈli.zi.əm/
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Love, the grand enchanter, “lapt them in Elysium,” and every sense was harmonized to joy and social extacy.
I suppose this Halifax would have appeared an Elysium, though it had been a curiosity of ugly dulness.
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Poor shadows of Elysium, hence and rest Upon your never-withering banks of flow’rs.
Timid, with the timidity of their second childhood, constrained and embarrassed by each other's presence, they were, nevertheless, in a little Elysium of their own creating.
Another boy-hero is Urashima, who visited Elysium in a fishing-boat.