Elysium

Other forms: Elysiums

Finished your exams? Summer stretches in front of you? You're in a state of Elysium, a condition of absolute contentment.

Elysium is also known as the Elysian Fields, not to be confused with Elysian Fields, New Jersey, where the first organized baseball game is believed to have taken place, or Elysian Fields, Texas, or the song of the same name by thrash metal band Megadeth. Note that it's always spelled with a capital E, because it's named after the mythological Greek place where the illustrious dead went to hang out in the afterlife.

Definitions of Elysium

1. noun

   a place or condition of ideal happiness
   type of:

   fictitious place, imaginary place, mythical place

   a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings
2. noun

   (Greek mythology) the abode of the blessed after death
   synonyms: Elysian Fields

   type of:

   Heaven

   the abode of God and the angels