heavenlyheav‧en‧ly /ˈhevənli/ ●○○ adjective 
That smells heavenly. We found a tiny hotel in a heavenly spot with a beautiful bay.2[only before noun] biblical existing in or belonging to heaven: God’s heavenly kingdomheavenly Father (=God)the Heavenly Host (=all the angels)3literary existing in or relating to the sky or stars: heavenly bodies (=the Moon, planets, and stars)
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a heavenly choir of angels
- What a heavenly sound!
- Believers wanted to be detached in many ways from earthly life and attached to heavenly life through a process called salvation.
- But like Clinton, the former governor found that a heavenly voice can apply devilish heat.
- Kringelborn and McNair blend in heavenly fashion in the letter duet.
- The pies were heavenly, even the Vicar's.
- The seventh seal triggers seven trumpets, which introduce various additional heavenly and earthly cataclysms.
- The vision is far too heavenly.
- These watercolours are actually very close in conception to the heavenly scenes of her decorations.
WORD SETS
acolyte, nounafterlife, nounagnostic, nounangel, nounanimism, nounanoint, verbapostasy, nounapostate, nounarchangel, nounbelieve, verbbeliever, nounbell-ringer, nounbless, verbblessed, adjectiveblessing, nouncelebrant, nounChristian Science, nouncircumcise, verbcircumcision, nouncommunion, nounconfession, nounconvent, nounconversion, nounconvert, nouncoreligionist, nouncowl, nouncredo, nouncreed, nouncult, noundaemon, nounDecalogue, noundefrock, verbdeism, noundenomination, noundenominational, adjectivedevotee, noundevotion, noundevotional, adjectivedevout, adjectivedivine, adjectivedivinity, noundruid, nounfaith, nounfast day, nounfeast, nounfervour, nounfiesta, nounfollow, verbfrankincense, noungentile, noungod, noungoddess, noungrace, nounhabit, nounhair shirt, nounhallelujah, interjectionhallowed, adjectivehalo, nounheathen, adjectiveheathen, nounheaven, nounheavenly, adjectivehell, nounheresy, nounheretic, nounhermit, nounhermitage, nounheterodox, adjectivehigh priest, nounidol, nounidolatry, nounincarnation, nounincense, nouninfidel, nounintercession, nouninvocation, nouninvoke, verbirreligious, adjective-ism, suffixlayman, nounlaywoman, nounlibation, nounliturgical, adjectiveliturgy, nounmartyr, nounmartyr, verbmeditate, verbmeditation, nounmission, nounmonastery, nounmonastic, adjectivemonk, nounmonotheism, nounMoonie, nounMormon, nounMosaic, adjectivemystery play, nounmystic, nounmystical, adjectivemysticism, nounneophyte, nounnovice, nounnovitiate, nounnuminous, adjectivenun, nounnunnery, nounoblation, nounobservance, nounoffering, nounOlympian, adjectiveordain, verborder, nounorthodox, adjectiveotherworldly, adjectivepagan, adjectivepagan, nounpantheism, nounpantheon, nounParsee, nounpilgrim, nounpilgrimage, nounpious, adjectivepluralism, nounpolytheism, nounpractise, verbpray, verbprayer, nounprayer wheel, nounpreach, verbpreacher, nounpriest, nounpriestess, nounpriesthood, nounpriestly, adjectiveprophet, nounprophetess, nounpurify, verbRasta, nounRastafarian, nounRastaman, nounRE, nounrecant, verbreincarnation, nounreligious, adjectivereligiously, adverbreliquary, nounrepent, verbretreat, nounrevelation, nounrevivalism, nounrite, nounritual, nounsacred, adjectivesacrifice, nounsacrifice, verbsacrificial, adjectivesanctify, verbsanctity, nounsanctuary, nounsanctum, nounsatanism, nounscripture, nounsect, nounsectarian, adjectiveservice, nounshaman, nounShinto, nounshrine, nounsin, nounsin, verbsinful, adjectivesinner, nounsoul, nounspirit, nounspiritual, adjectivespiritualism, nounspirituality, nounSr, sun god, nounsuppliant, nounsupplicant, nounsupplication, nounSupreme Being, nounTao, nounTaoism, nountemple, nountenet, nounthanksgiving, nountheism, nountheo-, prefixtheocracy, nountheologian, nountheological college, nountheology, nountonsure, nountranscendental, adjectivetranscendental meditation, nountransmigration, noununbelief, noununbeliever, nounungodly, adjectiveunholy, adjectiveunorthodox, adjectivevisionary, nounvoodoo, nounvotary, nounworship, verbworship, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY heavenly bodies (=the Moon, planets, and stars)COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
1old-fashioned extremely pleasant, enjoyable, or beautiful: (=God)
(=all the angels)
heavenly bodies (=the Moon, planets, and stars)· This moving image manifests itself in the motions of the heavenly bodies.· Thus, in particular, heavenly bodies moving in a gravitational field are well described by such geodesics.· All the movements of the heavenly bodies are caused by wind.· For untold generations the priests of the kingdom of Babylonia meticulously observed and recorded the movements of the heavenly bodies.· It goes back to the days when people used to worship heavenly bodies as gods.· Awareness of the stars and their light pervades the Koran, which reflects the brightness of the heavenly bodies in many verses.· The problem, therefore, was to account for the apparent motion of the heavenly bodies given these two assumptions.· The mosque and the Koran belong to women as much as do the heavenly bodies.
· Hermitic asceticism represents the most radical phase of the earthly search for access to the gates of the heavenly city.· In contrast to the heavenly city, the earthly city is occupied by the fallen angels and the impious.
· He is the one who represents us before his heavenly Father.· They sacrifice it to its heavenly father.· This is the first time his fellowship with his heavenly Father is broken and his oneness with the Father is shattered.· His followers are to trust in the goodness and providence of their heavenly father and abandon their care about the material world.· Justification is, as I have said, a declarative doctrine that we are sons and daughters of a heavenly Father.· You did not learn that from mortal man; it was revealed to you by my heavenly Father.· The way is through the waters of Baptism were we are assured the forgiveness of our heavenly Father.
· This small angel got separated from the heavenly host.
That smells heavenly. We found a tiny hotel in a heavenly spot with a beautiful bay.2[only before noun] biblical existing in or belonging to heaven: God’s heavenly kingdomheavenly Father (=God)the Heavenly Host (=all the angels)3literary existing in or relating to the sky or stars: heavenly bodies (=the Moon, planets, and stars)