MEANING
1. Of or relating to the highest heaven; figuratively, elevated beyond the ordinary or earthly.
2. The highest heaven, imagined as the realm of pure light or divine fire.
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Use for a lofty, almost heavenly setting or image.Create a sense of vast, celestial elevation or sublime distance.
Words that belong together
- empyrean heights
- empyrean vault
- empyrean realm
- the empyrean
- empyrean fire
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From the ridge, the stars seemed to open an empyrean vault.
The hymn placed the lost souls in the empyrean.
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Usage notes
Historically refers to the highest heaven; figurative uses are elevated and deliberately grand. Sense 2: As a noun, it is a poetic or historical cosmological term, not an ordinary synonym for sky.
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