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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | heaven |
| Synonyms: | empyrean, lid, sky, the blue, the skies, vault, welkin, wild blue yonder |
| Antonyms: | hell |
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| Main Entry: | sky |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | Earth's atmosphere |
| Synonyms: | azure, celestial sphere, empyrean, firmament, heavens, lid, the blue, upper atmosphere, vault, vault of heaven, welkin, wild blue yonder |
| Antonyms: | earth |
| Main Entry: | empyrean |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | heavenly |
| Synonyms: | celestial, cosmos, ether, firmament, paradise, sky |
| Main Entry: | welkin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | air |
| Synonyms: | blast*, breath, breeze, draft, firmament, heaven, heavens, ozone, puff, sky, stratosphere, troposphere, ventilation, waft, whiff, wind, zephyr |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | heaven |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Concept: | Heaven. |
| Category: | 2. Mythological and other fabulous deities and powers |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
heaven; kingdom of heaven, kingdom of God; heavenly kingdom; throne of God; presence of God; inheritance of the saints in light., Paradise, Eden, Zion, abode of the blessed; celestial bliss, glory., [Mythological heaven] Olympus; [paradise] Elysium, Elysian fields, Arcadia, bowers of bliss, garden of the Hesperides, third heaven; Valhalla, Walhall [Scandinavian]; Nirvana [Buddhist]; happy hunting grounds; Alfardaws, Assama; Falak al aflak "the highest heaven" [Muslim]., future state, eternal home., resurrection, translation; resuscitation., apotheosis, deification.
-adjectives
heavenly, celestial, supernal, unearthly, from on high, paradisiacal, beatific, elysian.
-phrases
"looks through nature up to the nature's god" [Pope]; "the great world's altar-stairs, that slope through darkness up to God" [Tennyson]; "the treasury of
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| Antonyms: | hell |
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