celestial
23
6.9
- adjective
- /səˈlɛstʃəl/
- Literature
:
celestial
- Pharaohs were considered the earthly incarnation of this all-seeing celestial bird, who was the patron deity of kingship.
- celestial realm
- celestial pole
- celestial ascent
Examples
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Now, the Queen Mother of the West is a celestial goddess responsible for the world's rhythmic and seasonal change.
Academic text (1991) -
She's singing about her vision of their life in the hereafter, in the world beyond, in the celestial realm.
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"Oh, who can look on that celestial face..."
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Paper bridge for your baby to cross over into celestial garden.
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Well, she came down from some celestial spot.
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And where, one may well ask, does Nurse Johnson fit among that celestial chorus?
Fiction book (1996) -
To a home on God's celestial shore
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Most of the people around us were staring silently at the celestial wonder.
Academic text (2000) -
The lady's nearly celestial beauty is indeed viewed objectively, impersonally, and perhaps coldly.
Academic text (2003) -
The stars shone brightly in the night sky, giving the scene a celestial beauty.
Synonyms
218
5.3
Relating to God or a god
103
5.0
Connected with God or the place people go after death
22
8.8
Very light and delicate in a way that seems heavenly
1
9.9
Having a beautiful, heavenly look or sound that feels holy
Like the highest part of the sky or heaven
A thing that seems from another world and gives a calm, spiritual feeling
Compounds
- Specialized
5
4.4
A natural object in space like a star or planet that you can see in the sky
- Specialized
1
7.7
A way to find where you are at sea by using stars, the Sun, and the Moon
- Specialized
1
8.4
An imaginary ball around the Earth in the sky where stars and planets appear to be
- Specialized
1
7.9
The study of the movement of objects in space caused by gravity
- Specialized
1
8.8
One of the two points in the sky where the line Earth spins around seems to meet the stars
- Specialized
A way to guide a vehicle like a spaceship using stars and planets
- Specialized
An imaginary circle in the sky where the ground seems to meet the sky from where you are
- Specialized
The angle that shows how far north or south a star is from the sky's equator, measured in degrees
- Specialized
How far east a star or planet is along the sky's equator from the spring equinox
- Specialized
A path in space that a planet or moon follows around a bigger object such as a star
- Specialized
A point in the sky above Earth's North Pole that stars appear to turn around and is near Polaris
- Specialized
The point in the sky above Earth's South Pole that the stars appear to turn around
How Heavenly
Surface Forms
Morphology
celestial = celest + ial
The adjective is built from a Latin combining form 'celest-' plus the suffix '-ial'; there is no standalone English base form learners would recognize, so the meaning cannot be reliably derived from English components.
Etymology
Celestial comes from the Latin word caelum, which means 'sky' or 'heaven'. So a celestial being or scene is one that seems to come from the heavens or is heavenly.