'Celestial City' definitions:
Definition of 'Celestial City'
From: WordNet
noun
Phrases used to refer to Heaven; "the Celestial City was Christian's goal in Bunyan's `Pilgrim's Progress'" [syn: Celestial City, City of God, Heavenly City, Holy City]
Definition of 'Celestial city'
From: GCIDE
- Celestial \Ce*les"tial\, a. [OF. celestial, celestied, fr. L. caelestic, fr. caelum heaved. See Cell.]
- 1. Belonging to the a["e]rial regions, or visible heavens. "The twelve celestial signs." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Of or pertaining to the spiritual heaven; heavenly; divine. "Celestial spirits." "Celestial light," --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Chinese, or Celestial, Empire, of the Chinese people. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- Celestial city, heaven; the heavenly Jerusalem. --Bunyan.
- Celestial empire, China; -- so called from the Chinese words, tien chan, Heavenly Dynasty, as being the kingdom ruled over by the dynasty appointed by heaven. --S. W. Williams. [1913 Webster]