Elysian

Definitions: Elysian

Elysian

Adjective

1. Relating to the Elysian Fields.

2. Resembling paradise; causing happiness; "elysian peace"; "a paradisal place without work or struggle"; "paradisial isles"; "an age of paradisiacal happiness".

3. Of such surpassing excellence as to suggest divine inspiration; "her pies were simply divine"; "the divine Shakespeare"; "an elysian meal"; "an inspired performance".

Date "elysian" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Elysian \E*ly"sian\, adjective. [Latin expression Elysius, from Elysium.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Industry	Heavy woollen cloth for overcoats. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonyms: Elysian

Synonyms: divine (adj), inspired (adj), paradisaic (adj), paradisaical (adj), paradisal (adj), paradisiac (adj), paradisiacal (adj), paradisial (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Heaven	Adjective: heavenly, celestial, supernal, unearthly, from on high, paradisiacal, beatific, elysian.
	Olympus; Elysium, Elysian fields, Arcadia, bowers of bliss, garden of the Hesperides, third heaven; Valhalla, Walhalla (Scandinavian); Nirvana (Buddhist); happy hunting grounds; Alfardaws, Assama; Falak al aflak "the highest heaven" (Mohammedan).
Pain	Charming; delightful, felicitous, exquisite; lovely; (beautiful); ravishing, rapturous; heartfelt, thrilling, ecstatic; beatic; beatific; seraphic; empyrean; elysian; (heavenly).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Elysian

English words defined with "elysian": divine ♦ Elysian Fields ♦ inspired. (references)

Specialty definitions using "elysian": 56028 ♦ Charon's Toll ♦ elysian fabric ♦ Hades. (references)

Etymologies containing "elysian": Elysium. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, and true plain hearts do in thee faces rest. Within twenty-four hours, my work will be finished, and then, my precious jewel, I will join you in your setting. We shall be reunited forever in a secluded corner of the great elysian field of the beautiful beyond! (The Abominable Dr. Phibes; writing credit: James Whiton; William Goldstein)
Movie/TV Titles	The Man from Elysian Fields (2001) Elysian Fields (1998)
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Domain	Title
Books	Elysian Days and Nights [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] (reference) Elysian Encounter: Diderot and Gide (reference) Elysian Fields (reference) Elysian Fields: A Book of Memory (reference) Elysian Fields: A Novel (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Elysian Fields Quarterly (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	The Man from Elysian Fields (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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	The cricket match played at Hoboken on October 3-6, 1859, between the All England Eleven and the United States Twenty-Two A baseball match at the Elysian Fields, Hoboken.Credit: Library of Congress.		The American national game of base ball. Grand match for the championship at the Elysian Fields, Hoboken, N.J. / lith. of Currier & Ives.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	The summer, in some climates, makes possible to man a sort of Elysian life.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spirits; the place where the dead live. Among the ancients the idea of Hades was not synonymous with our Hell, many of the most respectable men of antiquity residing there in a very comfortable kind of way. Indeed, the Elysian Fields themselves were a part of Hades, though they have since been removed to Paris. When the Jacobean version of the New Testament was in process of evolution the pious and learned men engaged in the work insisted by a majority vote on translating the Greek word "Aides" as "Hell"; but a conscientious minority member secretly possessed himself of the record and struck out the objectional word wherever he could find it. At the next meeting, the Bishop of Salisbury, looking over the work, suddenly sprang to his feet and said with considerable excitement: "Gentlemen, somebody has been razing 'Hell' here!" Years afterward the good prelate's death was made sweet by the reflection that he had been the means (under Providence) of making an important, serviceable and immortal addition to the phraseology of the English tongue.
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"Elysian" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Elysian" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	15	90,616

1. Elysian, MN (city, FIPS 19160)
Location: 44.19997 N, 93.67707 W
Population (1990): 445 (208 housing units)
Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 56028
Country: USA

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Expressions: Elysian

Expressions using "elysian": elysian fabric ♦ elysian fields. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Elysian

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
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elysian beach resort	20
elysian park	16
elysian minnesota	16
elysian field tx	6
st thomas elysian	4
elysian heights	4
elysian resort	4
elysian hills	4
elysian field isd	4
elysian beach	3
elysian field inn	3
elysian field high school	3
elysian field texas	3
brewery elysian	3
elysian field lyrics	2
elysian field music	2
elysian field mythology	2
elysian hills horse trial	2
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Modern Translations: Elysian

Language		Translations for "elysian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		天� � (HEAVEN, heavens, Paradise). (various references)

Danish		elysian. (various references)

Dutch		elysian-weefsel (elysian fabric). (various references)

French		elysian. (various references)

German		himmlisch (adorable, angelic, celestial, celestially, divine, empyreal, heavenliness, heavenly, infinite, sublime). (various references)

Greek		ελισιάν. (various references)

Hungarian		elíziumi mezők (elysian fields). (various references)

Italian		elysian. (various references)

Manx		Eleeysagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		elysianay

Portuguese		elysian. (various references)

Spanish		elysian. (various references)

Swedish		de elyseiska fälten (elysian fields). (various references)

Turkish		ilahi (anthem, canticle, celestial, chant, divine, godly, heavenly, hymn, psalm), cennete ait (heavenly, paradisiac, paradisiacal), cennet gibi (idyllic, paradisiac, paradisiacal). (various references)
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Ancestral Language Translations: Elysian

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	Elysion pedion. (various references)
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Misspellings: Elysian

Misspellings
	"Elysian" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alesina, aplysian, celsian, eliasian, elisian, ellisian, ellysian, elysean, Elysemat, Elysia, elysion, elyssian, leysian, pelasgian, pepysian. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Elysian"

Words rhyming with "elysian" (pronounced 'E*ly"sian'): Albigensian, Artesian, Asian, Athanasian, Australasian, Castrensian, Circassian, Cluniacensian, Complutensian, Dionysian, Etesian, Haversian, Jonesian, Lithosian, Magnesian, Malthusian, Manganesian, Marcosian, Mathusian, Megalesian, Melanesian, Paraphrasian, Peloponnesian, Precisian, Premonstratensian, Prussian, Russian, Triplasian, Waldensian. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Elysian

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-n-s-y"
	-1 letter: aliens, alines, easily, elains, inlays, lianes, linsey, lysine, saline, sanely, silane.
	-2 letters: aisle, alien, aline, anile, anils, anise, ayins, elain, elans, inlay, lanes, leans, lenis, liane, liens, lines, liney, lyase, lysin, nails, slain, snail, yeans.
	-3 letters: ails, ains, ales, anes, anil, anis, ayes, ayin, easy, elan, eyas, ilea, inly, isle, lain, lane, lase, lays, lean, leas, leis, lens, leys, lien, lies, line, lins, liny, lyes, lyse, nail, nays, nils, sail, sain, sale, sane, seal, sial, sine, slay, snye, syli, syne, yean, yeas, yens, yins.
	-4 letters: ail, ain, ais, ale, als, ane, ani, any, aye, ays, els, ens, ins, las, lay, lea, lei, ley, lie, lin, lis, lye, nae, nay, nil, sae, sal, say, sea, sei, sel, sen, sin, sly, syn, yea, yen, yes, yin.
	-5 letters: ae, ai, al, an, as, ay, el, en, es, in, is, la, li, na, ne, si, ya, ye.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-n-s-y"
	+1 letter: hyalines, inlayers, insanely, saliency, sneakily, uneasily, yealings.
	+2 letters: asininely, interlays, layerings, lyonnaise, saliently, sapiently, searingly, seminally, sylvanite, teasingly, yeanlings, yearlings.
	+3 letters: amplidynes, hesitantly, interplays, invasively, lawyerings, manifestly, minelayers, miscellany, mistakenly, obeisantly, painlessly, pargylines, pleasingly, polyamines, reanalysis, sanguinely, scenically, sensuality, sneakingly, sylvanites, thylacines, unsteadily, urinalyses.
	+4 letters: abstinently, antileprosy, antislavery, arrestingly, brainlessly, caressingly, crystalline, delusionary, encyclicals, erosionally, essentially, expansively, festinately, grandiosely, hypersaline, incessantly, inescapably, inestimably, inexcusably, insatiately, insensately, inseparably, insuperably, interlayers, ladyfingers, lyricalness, masculinely, metanalysis, misanalyses, misshapenly, necessarily, nefariously, obstinately, personality, polyandries, screamingly, searchingly, seasonality, secondarily, sectionally, semitonally, sensorially, stainlessly, sustainedly, tenaciously, transiently, typicalness, unadvisedly, unceasingly, undesirably, universally.
	+5 letters: acetylations, amblygonites, amylopectins, anelasticity, anticyclones, antiepilepsy, astringently, considerably, cyclazocines, decreasingly, desolatingly, despairingly, discrepantly, essentiality, exclusionary, forensically, gelatinously, geosynclinal, glycerinates, heathenishly, hematoxylins, hesitatingly, hydralazines, impersonally, inaccessibly, inappositely, increasingly, indefeasibly, inelasticity, insufferably, intervalleys, intestinally, laryngitides, mendaciously, methylamines, methylations, misleadingly, myofilaments, nauseatingly, oleaginously, overanalysis, palynologies, pansexuality, passionately, physicalness, phytoalexins, platyrrhines, questionably, reassuringly, redisplaying, restrainedly, scatteringly, semantically, semiannually, septennially, sequentially, shatteringly, simultaneity, staggeringly, swaggeringly, syndactylies, syndetically, synergically, transitively, unhysterical, unisexuality, universality.
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