promised land
Long-sought haven
A promised land is any place or situation representing hope, fulfillment, or deliverance from hardship.
The phrase evokes a destination where struggles end and prosperity begins: For many immigrants, America was the promised land.
After years of poverty, financial stability felt like reaching the promised land. (Capitalized Promised Land is the biblical territory.)
Ideal, blissful place
- EdenScriptural original paradise
- Shangri-LaFictional Himalayan utopia
- ArcadiaGreek region or paradise
- ElysiumGreek afterlife for heroes
Nirvana · Avalon · Camelot · utopia · Atlantis · El Dorado · heaven · idyll
Sleeping mind's narrative
- hopeDesire for good outcomes
- visionAbility to see
- goalDesired end result
- ambitionDesire for achievement
longing · yearning · pursuit · fulfillment · achievement · expectation · aspiration · deliverance
Relocating abroad permanently
- settlersThose who establish homes
- pioneersFirst to explore territory
- frontierEdge of settlement
- homesteadFamily farm and dwelling
New World · Ellis Island · refuge · asylum · sanctuary · haven · journey · passage
Good fortune, success
- plentySufficient quantity, and then some
- harvestGathering mature crops
- bountyReward for capture
- flourishingProspering vigorously
wealth · richness · blessing · provision · overflowing · growth · opportunity
paradise
Ideal, blissful place
- EdenScriptural original paradise
- Shangri-LaFictional Himalayan utopia
- ArcadiaGreek region or paradise
Elysium · Nirvana · Avalon · Camelot · utopia · Atlantis · El Dorado · heaven · idyll · golden age
dream
Sleeping mind's narrative
ambition · longing · yearning · pursuit · fulfillment · achievement · expectation · aspiration · deliverance
immigration
Relocating abroad permanently
homestead · New World · Ellis Island · refuge · asylum · sanctuary · haven · journey · passage · arrival
prosperity
Good fortune, success
flourishing · wealth · richness · blessing · provision · overflowing · growth · opportunity
- Hebrew BibleTanakh, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers
- religious nationalismreligious nationalism, theocracy, state religion, Zionism, Islamism
- BiblicalAdam, Eve, Moses, Noah, David
- mythsmyth, legend, fable, fairy tale, folk tale
- afterlifeheaven, hell, paradise, purgatory, limbo
- Bible StoriesAdam and Eve, David and Goliath, Noah's Ark, Jonah and the whale, nativity
promised landEgypt
Northeastern African nation
starting point · point of departure · captivity · place of origin · the old country
promised landhell
Underworld of suffering
perdition · damnation · purgatory · underworld · Gehenna
promised landwasteland
Uninhabitable barren region
dystopia · wilderness · dead end · hellhole · desolation
land, promise, compromise, promised, promising, promises, compromising, compromised, unpromising