happy place
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3.9
- noun
- Informal
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- My garden is my happy place where I can escape the stress of daily life.
- Go to your happy place
- Find your happy place
That's my happy place and that's my happy space.
- That's my happy place and that's my happy space.
- There's no room in our happy place for guilt.
- And then also in Fight Club, his happy place was the pain.
- Everybody is, you know, go, you know, go find your happy place.
- Like, there's a happy place that I now find myself going to a lot on TikTok.
- I am in my my, my happy place, my craft room, which yes, it's my sanctuary.
- And politics, even though I do somehow sometimes get involved, is not my happy place at all because I don't feel like my opinion.
- I mean, there's a million things we would change, but then I'm in a happy place.
Examples
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Max thought his dream world would be a happy place.
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By 11 a.m., my eyes were wide open, and I was bouncing around in a happy place at last.
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It's just you being in a happy place no matter what was going on because you had that purpose now of being a father.
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Find your happy place up there.
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What a happy place this has become.
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"Right now it seems like a warm and happy place, really safe and friendly."
Fiction book (1996) -
In 2008, I got my first work Mac, and I found my happy place.
Blog text (7) -
Oh, I'm in my happy place.
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I went to the cloisters on Saturday, and it was such a calm and happy place.
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Life shouldn't be a miserable one, and life should be a happy place for us all to live in.
Blog text (27)
Synonyms
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1.1
A place that someone likes more than other places
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3.3
A situation where a person feels calm and in control with little stress
A calm, happy time or place without worry
Antonyms
How Comfortable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a location or mental state that brings comfort or happiness' is directly and predictably built from 'happy' (feeling joy or contentment) + 'place' (location or state), so a learner who knows both words can infer the meaning. This adjective+noun compositional pattern is common and cross-linguistically accessible, making the expression immediately comprehensible at B1.
Etymology
Happy place comes from the simple image of a special place, like a room, a garden, or a memory, where you feel happy, safe, and calm. That's why people call a real or mental spot their happy place when they need 'comfort' or an 'escape' from stress.