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Elysium [ɪˈlɪzɪəm] n
1. (Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) Also called Elysian fields Greek myth the dwelling place of the blessed after death See also Islands of the Blessed 2. a state or place of perfect bliss [from Latin, from Greek Ēlusion pedion Elysian (that is, blessed) fields] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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"Pulled it off," said Chunk with Elysium in his grin. In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faery lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. I go to Liberia, not as an Elysium of romance, but as to a field of work. |
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