elysium

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   in Greek mythology, the paradise where favored heroes and the blessed dead enjoy an ideal afterlife

   The poet imagined Elysium as a peaceful home for heroic and virtuous souls.

2. 2
   noun

   a place or state of perfect happiness and delight

   After months of hardship, the quiet garden seemed an elysium.

Through Latin Elysium from Greek Elȳsion, usually in the phrase Elȳsion pedion ('Elysian plain or field'). Its deeper Greek origin is uncertain. The mythological name later broadened in English to any place or condition of complete happiness.

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