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elysium

/ɪˈlɪʒ.i.əm/

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What does elysium mean?

proper noun

  1. The home of the blessed after death.
  2. A place or state of ideal happiness; paradise.
  3. A region in the northern hemisphere of Mars.

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IPA pronunciation

/ɪˈlɪʒ.i.əm/

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/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.
Mary WollstonecraftMaria; Or, The Wrongs of WomanProject Gutenberg ebook #134
I suppose this Halifax would have appeared an Elysium, though it had been a curiosity of ugly dulness.
Charles DickensAmerican NotesProject Gutenberg ebook #675
More book examples (3)
Poor shadows of Elysium, hence and rest Upon your never-withering banks of flow’rs.
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100
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.
Frank NorrisMcTeague: A Story of San FranciscoProject Gutenberg ebook #165
Another boy-hero is Urashima, who visited Elysium in a fishing-boat.
Alexander Francis ChamberlainThe Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-DayProject Gutenberg ebook #7966