SEVENTH HEAVEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seventh heaven mean? 

• SEVENTH HEAVEN (noun)
  The noun SEVENTH HEAVEN has 1 sense:

1. a state of extreme happiness

  Familiarity information: SEVENTH HEAVEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEVENTH HEAVEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of extreme happiness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

bliss; blissfulness; cloud nine; seventh heaven; walking on air

Hypernyms ("seventh heaven" is a kind of...):

elation (an exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism; an absence of depression)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "seventh heaven"):

ecstasy; rapture (a state of elated bliss)

 Context examples 

I kissed Miss Mills's hand; and we all seemed, to my thinking, to go straight up to the seventh heaven.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)