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Examples of empyrean in a Sentence
movie scenes set in heaven often suggest that harps are the favored instruments for empyrean music
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Our badges looked different, we were afforded fewer privileges, and we were certainly kept in the dark about The Algorithm (pause for heavenly-choir noise effect) and other such empyrean secrets.
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First Known Use of empyrean
15th century
empyrean Synonyms
Synonyms
elysian, empyreal, celestial, ethereal, heavenly, supernalAntonyms
chthonic (also chthonian), hellish, infernal, plutonian, sulfurous, TartareanRelated Words
supernatural, transcendent, transcendental, unearthly, unworldly; angelic (or angelical), beatific, blissful; Olympian, paradisiacal (or paradisiac), utopian; cosmic (also cosmical), galactic, stellarNear Antonyms
earthly, mundane, terrestrial, worldly; anti-utopian, dystopianDefinition of empyrean
1 a
:the highest heaven or heavenly sphere in ancient and medieval cosmology usually consisting of fire or light
b
:the true and ultimate heavenly paradise
3
:an ideal place or state
Examples of empyrean in a Sentence
ascended into the empyrean after a life filled with good deeds
most ticket buyers have no trouble envisioning the empyrean that winning the lottery would inevitably bring about
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But even in the empyrean reaches of premium cable, Shondaland has a voice.
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First Known Use of empyrean
1667
empyrean Synonyms
Synonyms
above, bliss, elysian fields, Elysium, heaven, kingdom come, New Jerusalem, paradise, sky, Zion (also Sion)Antonyms
Gehenna, hell, Pandemonium, perditionRelated Words
Beulah, glory, happy hunting ground, nirvana, promised land, Valhalla; afterlife, afterworld, hereafter, otherworldNear Antonyms
inferno; limbo, purgatory; hades, netherworld, underworld; abyss, pitLearn More about empyrean
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