celestial

• cælestial (archaic), cælestiall (obsolete), celestiall (obsolete), cœlestial (archaic, nonstandard)

Borrowed from Old French celestial, from Medieval Latin caelestialis, from Latin caelestis, from caelum (“sky, heaven”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /səˈlɛst͡ʃəl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /səˈlɛstiəl/

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celestial (not comparable)

1. Synonym of heavenly: of or related to Heaven and the divine.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)

2. Relating to the sky or outer space, regarded as the realm of the sun, moon, planets, and stars.
   • Shakespeare

     The twelve celestial signs.

3. (Mormonism) Of or pertaining to the highest degree of glory.
   • 1974 February, “A Sure Trumpet Sound: Quotations from President Lee”, in Ensign‎, page 77:

     We are now living and obeying celestial laws that will make us candidates for celestial glory.

   • 1997 November, Richard J. Maynes, “A Celestial Connection to Your Teenage Years”, in Ensign‎, page 30:

     How will you make it through your teenage years spiritually prepared for your celestial future? How will you connect your celestial goals with your everyday life?

• (Relating to the sky): heavenly; celest (obsolete)

celestial (plural celestials)

1. An inhabitant of heaven.
   • 1913, Horace Coffin Stanton, Telepathy of the Celestial World‎, page x:

     For the celestials communicate by the psychic dispatch. Scriptures prove that.

From Celestial Empire, a formerly used name for China.

• Celestial (native of China)

celestial (plural celestials)

1. (obsolete, sometimes capitalized) A native of China.
   • 1897, Joseph Llewelyn Thomas, “The North Pacific”, in Journeys Among the Gentle Japs in the Summer of 1895‎, page 23:

     Three celestials died during the voyage, and, in accordance with the contract, their remains were embalmed and carried on to China.

2. (obsolete, slang) by extension, an East Asian person.

• celestial in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “celestial” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
• Kingdoms of Glory on LDS.org.

• cistellae

From Old Portuguese celestial, borrowed from Medieval Latin caelestiālis (“celestial”), from Latin caelestis (“celestial”), from caelum (“sky”).

celestial m or f (plural celestiais)

1. celestial

• ceo

Borrowed from Medieval Latin caelestialis, from Latin caelestis.

celestial m or f (plural celestials)

1. celestial

• cel

From Old Portuguese celestial, borrowed from Medieval Latin caelestiālis (“celestial”), from Latin caelestis (“celestial”), from caelum (“sky”).

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /se.les.t͡ʃi.ˈaw/, /se.leʃ.t͡ʃi.ˈaw/, /se.les.ˈt͡ʃjaw/, /se.leʃ.ˈt͡ʃjaw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɨlɨʃˈtjaɫ/

celestial m or f (plural celestiais, comparable)

1. (religion) heavenly (relating to heaven)

• celeste

• (heavenly): infernal, terreno

• celeste
• céu

Borrowed from Medieval Latin caelestialis, from Latin caelestis, based on caelum (“sky, heaven”).

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /θe̞lesˈtjal/
• (Others) IPA^(key): /se̞lesˈtjal/

celestial (plural celestiales)

1. celestial

• celeste
• cielo