ELYSIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Elysium mean? 

• ELYSIUM (noun)
  The noun ELYSIUM has 2 senses:

1. a place or condition of ideal happiness

2. (Greek mythology) the abode of the blessed after death

  Familiarity information: ELYSIUM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELYSIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A place or condition of ideal happiness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Elysium" is a kind of...):

fictitious place; imaginary place; mythical place (a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(Greek mythology) the abode of the blessed after death

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

Elysian Fields; Elysium

Hypernyms ("Elysium" is a kind of...):

Heaven (the abode of God and the angels)

Domain category:

Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)

Derivation:

elysian (relating to the Elysian Fields)

 Context examples 

With InSight's landing at Elysium Planitia, NASA has successfully soft-landed a vehicle on the Red Planet eight times.

(NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface, NASA)

St. John, no doubt, would have given the world to follow, recall, retain her, when she thus left him; but he would not give one chance of heaven, nor relinquish, for the elysium of her love, one hope of the true, eternal Paradise.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The lander touched down Monday, Nov. 26, near Mars' equator on the western side of a flat, smooth expanse of lava called Elysium Planitia, with a signal affirming a completed landing sequence at 11:52:59 a.m. PST (2:52:59 p.m. EST).

(NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface, NASA)

I was sure St. John Rivers—pure-lived, conscientious, zealous as he was—had not yet found that peace of God which passeth all understanding: he had no more found it, I thought, than had I with my concealed and racking regrets for my broken idol and lost elysium—regrets to which I have latterly avoided referring, but which possessed me and tyrannised over me ruthlessly.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)