sky

sky

noun

Definition of SKY

1

the expanse of air surrounding the earth <the sky usually looks deep blue on a bright clear day>

Synonyms blue, firmament, heaven(s), high, welkin

Related Words midair; horizon, skyline

2

a dwelling place of perfect happiness for the soul after death <a belief that warriors felled in battle will be raised to the sky>

Synonyms above, bliss, elysian fields, Elysium, empyrean, kingdom come, New Jerusalem, paradise, sky, Zion (also Sion)

Related Words Beulah, glory, happy hunting ground, nirvana, promised land, Valhalla; afterlife, afterworld, hereafter, otherworld

Near Antonyms inferno; limbo, purgatory; hades, netherworld, underworld; abyss, pit

Antonyms Gehenna, hell, Pandemonium, perdition