Celestial City

American  

noun

1. the goal of Christian's journey in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress; the heavenly Jerusalem.

2. New Jerusalem.

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Celestial City

In that book, the pilgrim extricates himself from the Slough of Despond—essentially a giant water hazard—and makes his way to the aptly named Celestial City.

From Golf Digest ● Dec. 17, 2018

But, unlike the stricken Christian, Van Dyk does not reach his Celestial City.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2017

Bunyan’s allegorical City of Destruction — and also, perhaps, the Celestial City that is its antithesis — is incarnated by modern Los Angeles.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2016

This motif, sounding like an ecstatic awakening, obsessed him: he used it in The Pilgrim's Progress to denote the Christian pilgrim arriving at his goal, the Celestial City.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2010

John; biographical note on, III, 165; articles by—a dream of the Celestial City, 165; the death of Valiant-for-truth and of Stand-fast, 169; ancient Vanity Fair, 172.Burke,

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index by Lodge, Henry Cabot