as in ecstasy
a state of overwhelming usually pleasurable emotion
she was in seventh heaven when she received the acceptance letter to medical school
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Recent Examples of seventh heaven
Just Like Heaven is one fun reminder that seventh heaven is finding a kindred spirit.
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Nathan Smith, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024
This birthday girl would soon grow up to be in seventh heaven.
—Alex Apatoff, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2023
If Los Angeles is the city of angels, this $19.9 million hilltop estate is seventh heaven.
—Isabel Lord, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
With a division title almost cinched and his old pal La Russa in the Sox dugout, Reinsdorf should be in seventh heaven.
—Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2021
Your sixth sense — the one beyond sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell — may be leading you to seventh heaven, the very height of happiness.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2019
Two incomplete passes later, Shurmur sent in the play that will forever be remembered around here: Buffalo right, seventh heaven.
—Bob Brookover, Philly.com, 14 Jan. 2018
Nathan Smith, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024
This birthday girl would soon grow up to be in seventh heaven.
—Alex Apatoff, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2023
If Los Angeles is the city of angels, this $19.9 million hilltop estate is seventh heaven.
—Isabel Lord, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
With a division title almost cinched and his old pal La Russa in the Sox dugout, Reinsdorf should be in seventh heaven.
—Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2021
Your sixth sense — the one beyond sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell — may be leading you to seventh heaven, the very height of happiness.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2019
Two incomplete passes later, Shurmur sent in the play that will forever be remembered around here: Buffalo right, seventh heaven.
—Bob Brookover, Philly.com, 14 Jan. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for seventh heaven
Noun
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The ecstasy at the final whistle.—
Jack Pitt-Brooke,
New York Times,
25 May 2026
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Her husband, Souksavath Noi Keomisy, pleaded guilty in 2009 to felony federal charges of conspiracy to possess the drug ecstasy with the intent to distribute.—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 May 2026
Noun
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Warnings, laments, and odes to renewal were expressed pictorially as dying days under bleeding heavens, belching volcanoes, proud icebergs, lavish rainbows amid spangling, mist-suffusing sunlight and dawns of peace and hope.—
Sebastian Smee,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Gaga and Doechii, a match made in fashion heaven, and two style students who clearly did their homework for this assignment.—
Christian Allaire,
Vogue,
27 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Even joy is documented in real time, filtered, posted, and measured back through engagement metrics.—
Desjah Altvater,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2026
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The obvious joy, curiosity, irreverence, and rollicking humor Holland and Sandbrook display while spelunking into the past brings electricity and life to events both near and long distant.—
Sean Woods,
Rolling Stone,
25 May 2026
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The hottest temperatures are forecast in the desert valleys of California, Nevada, and Arizona, where the highs could climb into the 100s early in the week.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
24 May 2026
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Memorial Day weekend, gas prices are at a four-year high.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
24 May 2026
Noun
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Martin also hopes to remind others that happiness is not about a number on a scale.—
Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
23 May 2026
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But this album is even more a celebration of memory, with plenty of current happiness thrown in too — as if his recollections about his Liverpool boyhood and his contemporary mash notes to his wife, Nancy Shevell, occupied adjacent spots on his personal timeline.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
23 May 2026
Noun
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The last two games against the Rockets have transitioned the Lakers from cloud nine into a turbulent flight for a spot in the Western Conference semifinals against the Oklahoma City Thunder.—
Benjamin Royer,
Oc Register,
30 Apr. 2026
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Time for a quick offseason mood check around all 12 of last year’s playoff teams: Living on cloud nine: Indiana.—
Alex Kirshner,
New York Times,
19 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Musical delight did not seem to be biologically endowed in quite the direct way people had assumed.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
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The jingle has staying power — much to the delight of prolific thriller author James Patterson, who helped write the lyrics in his early career in advertising.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
20 May 2026
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Four people were killed on May 14 when a medical transport airplane crashed in New Mexico and caused a fire, authorities said.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
14 May 2026
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Scientists at the University of Washington discovered highways within the fault that transport migrating fluid, which facilitates further weakening and stress on the fault, according to a paper published earlier this year in Science.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
14 May 2026
Cite this Entry
“Seventh heaven.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seventh%20heaven. Accessed 27 May. 2026.
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