seventh heaven
Americannoun
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(especially in Islam and the cabala) the highest heaven, where God and the most exalted angels dwell.
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a state of intense happiness; bliss.
We were in seventh heaven in our new home.
noun
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the final state of eternal bliss, esp according to Talmudic and Muslim eschatology
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a state of supreme happiness
Etymology
Origin of seventh heaven
First recorded in 1810–20
Example Sentences
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And to Ben Kelham came the tweeny's seventh-heaven glimpse of the understanding of real love.
From The Hawk of Egypt by Conquest, Joan
Then had been granted a seventh-heaven glimpse of what love, real love, can be, to the tweeny maid, changing her into a veritable spitfire, who had turned and rent the fox-faced youth.
From The Hawk of Egypt by Conquest, Joan
A moment ago, she had been in the seventh-heaven...
From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
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