celestial
celestial is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Of or pertaining to the spiritual heaven; heavenly; divine. "Celestial spirits." "Celestial light," Milton. Celestial city, heaven; the heavenly Jerusalem. Bunyan. -- Celestial empire, China; -- so called from the Chinese words, tien chan, Heavenly Dynasty, as being the kingdom ruled over by the dynasty appoined by heaven. S. W. Williams.
- 2.An inhabitant of heaven. Pope.
- 3.A native of China.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abode
- apotheosis
- beatific
- blessed
- bliss
- darkness
- deification
- elysian
- eternal
- everlasting
- from
- future
- garden
- glory
- god
- great
- happy
- heaven
- heavenly
- high
- home
- hunting
- inheritance
- joy
- kingdom
- light
- nature
- paradise
- paradisiacal
- presence
- resurrection
- resuscitation
- reward
- slope
- state
- supernal
- that
- the
- third
- throne
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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