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Celestial City
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English
Etymology
In reference to the spires of the churches.
Proper noun
1 Celestial City
en poetic en @nickname for:Fredericton capital prov/New Brunswick c/Canada.
en 1891 Charles G. D. Roberts The Canadian Guide-book: The Tourist's and Sportsman's Guide to Eastern Canada and Newfoundland New York D. Appleton and Company 147 https://books.google.com/books?id=0pFPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA147&dq=%22Celestial+City%22+Fredericton&hl=&cd=2&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Celestial%20City%22%20Fredericton&f=false Then the river widens out, and over its shining expanse we see the long bridges, the spires, and the billowy foliage of the city of elms, Fredericton, which is called by New-Brunswickers, in affectionate banter, the “Celestial City.”
en fiction Heaven in the allegory The Pilgrim's Progress.
29 I once was, as I thought, fair for the Cœleſtial City, and had then even joy at the thoughts that I ſhould get thither.
Related terms
en Celestia
en Celestial
en Celestian
See also
en New Jerusalem
en Nicknames for cities