elysium
elysium Lexical Profile
• noun
(usually capitalized) In Greek mythology, the abode of the blessed and virtuous dead after life.
"Ancient poets described Elysium as a sunlit meadow where heroes enjoyed eternal peace free from toil and sorrow."
Any place or condition of ideal happiness, bliss, or complete delight.
"For the exhausted hikers, the quiet mountain cabin felt like an absolute elysium."
(capitalized) A taxonomic genus of small, sap-sucking sacoglossan sea slugs in the family Plakobranchidae, noted for their ability to retain functional chloroplasts from the algae they consume.
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 16th century from Latin Elysium, from Ancient Greek Ἠλύσιον (Ēlýsion), short for Ἠλύσιον πεδίον (Ēlýsion pedíon, "the Elysian plain"), the mythological final resting place of the heroic and virtuous dead.
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