Halcyon vs Elysium - What's the difference?
halcyon | elysium |
In classical legends, a bird said to nest on the sea, thereby calming the waters; later usually identified with a type of kingfisher, hence (poetic) a kingfisher.
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* 1665 , (John Dryden), (The Indian Emperour) , IV iv 132:
* c''.1880 , (Ambrose Bierce), '' :
* Dryden
A tropical kingfisher of the genus Halcyon'', such as the sacred kingfisher ''(Halcyon sancta) of Australia.
Pertaining to the halcyon or kingfisher
Calm, undisturbed, peaceful, serene.
(Classical mythology) the home of the blessed after death.
A place or state of ideal happiness; paradise.
A region in the northern hemisphere of Mars.
blissful; euphoric
of or pertaining to Elysium.
As proper nouns the difference between halcyon and elysium
is that halcyon is while elysium is (classical mythology) the home of the blessed after death.As an adjective elysium is
blissful; euphoric.halcyon
English
Noun
(en noun)- the Halcyon' bird, or as some call it Alcedo or Kings-fisher, exceeds all mens conceit..
- Amidst our arms as quiet you shall be / As halcyons brooding on a winter sea.
- And, by the way, during those halcyon days (the halcyon was there, too, chattering above every creek, as he is all over the world) we fought another battle.
- Amidst our arms as quiet you shall be / As halcyons brooding on a winter sea.
Adjective
(en adjective)Quotations
{{timeline, 1700s=1787, 1800s=1842, 1900s=1919 1963}} * 1787 — *: Reflections of this kind may have trifling weight with men who hope to see realized in America the halcyon scenes of the poetic or fabulous age. * 1842 — , Cicero *:* Deep, halcyon repose. * 1919 — *: I had wander’d in rapture beneath them, and bask’d in the Halcyon clime. *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham) , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.}}