Definition of Celestial city

1. Noun. Phrases used to refer to Heaven. "The Celestial City was Christian's goal in Bunyan's `Pilgrim's Progress'"

Exact synonyms: City Of God, Heavenly City, Holy City
Generic synonyms: Heaven

Lexicographical Neighbors of Celestial City

Ceftin
Ceiba
Ceiba pentandra
Ceibhfhionn
Cek4 receptor protein-tyrosine kinase
Celastraceae
Celastric articulatus
Celastrus
Celastrus orbiculatus
Celastrus scandens
Celebes
Celebes Sea
Celebrex
Celebrityville
Celeste
Celestial City
Celestial Empire
Celestial Sphere
Celestin
Celestin tube
Celia
Celina
Celine
Celli
Cellini
Cellosolve
Cellosolves
Celosia
Celosia argentea
Celosia argentea cristata

Literary usage of Celestial city

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by International Congress of Americanists (1905)
"Cuzco, The celestial city. BY STANSBURY HAGAR. When the Spanish conquerors first came in sight of the capital city of the Incas they must have noticed that ..."

2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"CHRISTIANA AND HER COMPANIONS ENTER THE celestial city From the (Pilgrim's Progress > Now while they lay here and waited for the good hour, ..."

3. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose edited by Henry Cabot Lodge, Francis Whiting Halsey (1909)
"A DREAM OF THE celestial city Now I saw in my dream that by this time the pilgrims were got over the Enchanted Ground, and entering ..."

4. The Black Side: A Partial History of the Business, Religious, and by Edward Randolph Carter (1894)
"ER Carter to lead his people on- ward and upward toward the celestial city. But stop! Satan was not asleep. Some of the members began to find fault, ..."

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