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Celestial City

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Noun1.Celestial CityCelestial City - phrases used to refer to Heaven; "the Celestial City was Christian's goal in Bunyan's `Pilgrim's Progress'"
City of God, Heavenly City, Holy City
Heaven - the abode of God and the angels


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Whether they will be as readily received at the gate of the Celestial City I decline giving an opinion.
Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Nothing delighted you more than to have me tie my piece bags on your backs for burdens, give you hats and sticks and rolls of paper, and let you travel through the house from the cellar, which was the City of Destruction, up, up, to the housetop, where you had all the lovely things you could collect to make a Celestial City.
Little Women by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
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