Elysian Field

noun

variants or less commonly elysian field

plural Elysian Fields also elysian fields

Elysian Fields : an eternal paradise in ancient Greek mythology originally only for heroes and others granted immortality by the gods and later also for the blessed dead and those who lived a righteous life : elysium

… Livy, Horace and Virgil still rival in popularity most modern writers on the classical world. … I can imagine them smiling with satisfaction in the Elysian Fields as they work out what their 2,000 years of royalties might have added up to.—

Mary Beard

(figurative) Sixty-seven years is a good run for anything, but, when Mad confirmed that it was joining National Lampoon and Life and Spy in the magazine graveyard, and the Elysian Fields of online archives, the pang that many felt, as if leaving a childhood bedroom for the last time, was that its departure was nonetheless abrupt and premature.—

Jordan Orlando

: a place or state of bliss, felicity, or delight : paradise

He talks about zero inflation as if its attainment would be a monumental and permanent victory, to be celebrated in some Elysian Field wherein all would thereafter be sweetness and recovery.—

Hugo Young

—often plural

Within a single season, the wombat's habitat can careen from billiard-table-bare soil and rock to waving elysian fields of grass.—

Sy Montgomery

Examples of Elysian Field in a Sentence

those that live righteously will find peace in the elysian fields of the hereafter

Word History

First Known Use

1567, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler

The first known use of Elysian Field was in 1567

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“Elysian Field.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Elysian%20Field. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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