CELESTIAL CITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Celestial City mean? 

• CELESTIAL CITY (noun)
  The noun CELESTIAL CITY has 1 sense:

1. phrases used to refer to Heaven

  Familiarity information: CELESTIAL CITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CELESTIAL CITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Phrases used to refer to Heaven

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

Celestial City; City of God; Heavenly City; Holy City

Context example:

the Celestial City was Christian's goal in Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress'

Hypernyms ("Celestial City" is a kind of...):

Heaven (the abode of God and the angels)

 Context examples 

I shall have to do a deal of traveling before I come in sight of your Celestial City.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Gold and purple clouds lay on the hilltops, and rising high into the ruddy light were silvery white peaks that shone like the airy spires of some Celestial City.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Our burdens are here, our road is before us, and the longing for goodness and happiness is the guide that leads us through many troubles and mistakes to the peace which is a true Celestial City.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Nothing delighted you more than to have me tie my piece bags on your backs for burdens, give you hats and sticks and rolls of paper, and let you travel through the house from the cellar, which was the City of Destruction, up, up, to the housetop, where you had all the lovely things you could collect to make a Celestial City.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)