Elysian Fields love

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun plural The abode of the blessed after death.

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  • proper noun Elysium; home of the blessed, after death.
  • proper noun idiomatic A place or state of ideal happiness; paradise.

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  • noun (Greek mythology) the abode of the blessed after death

Etymologies

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From Elysian, from the Anglicization of Latin Elysium + fields.

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Examples

  • It was held at a nearby Mormon church, and the burial was at a small suburban cemetery called Elysian Fields.

    Richard Paul Evans Ebook Christmas Set Richard Paul Evans 2009

  • This is the home of Alexander Cartwright and the Elysian Fields, a place where nearly eight million people a year click through the turnstiles of a ballpark.

    Lacrosse Muscles Up Chris Herring 2011

  • At one point he mentioned Flanders and she immediately thought of the poem, In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row…She'd didn't mention this to him, because even though she knew the occasion of the poem, a part of her still thought of Flanders as an imagined place, like the Elysian Fields, or heaven.

    (7) Plus and Minus Nathaniel Bellows 2011

  • On Wednesday, Todd Harrison, the founder and CEO of Minyanville Media, and a former vice president at Morgan Stanley, hosted a group of his friends for a peek at the "Legacy Experience" and then a dinner of Elysian Fields lamb with kamut berry ragout.

    A Luxury 'Experience' With Louis XIII Marshall Heyman 2011

  • Meanwhile, "the Rampart expansion up to St. Claude, along with the Elysian Fields tie, is slated to cost $79 million and will be funded by sales-tax revenue bonds," he said.

    Susan Buchanan: Post-Katrina Rebuilding Includes Wider, Greener Transit Options Susan Buchanan 2011

  • This is the home of Alexander Cartwright and the Elysian Fields, a place where nearly eight million people a year click through the turnstiles of a ballpark.

    Lacrosse Muscles Up Chris Herring 2011

  • In contrast to this world of play and nursery rhymes, Javier De Frutos's very grown-up work Elysian Fields is an homage to Tennessee Williams, whose poetic, erotic works have haunted the choreographer's work for years.

    This week's new theatre and dance 2011

  • That line will skirt the edge of the French Quarter, and a segment of it will veer off and head down Elysian Fields, connecting to the existing, Riverfront streetcar line.

    Susan Buchanan: Post-Katrina Rebuilding Includes Wider, Greener Transit Options Susan Buchanan 2011

  • Princes Street and the Elysian Fields, the Strand and the Ringstrasse—these are the Ways of the World today.

    DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

  • The reason the restaurant can charge less: Executive chef Brian McBride is paying $5 a pound for rack of lamb from boutique supplier Elysian Fields — about 35% less than he paid last year.

    Restaurants See Signs of Spring Katy McLaughlin 2010

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