English Explanatory Dictionary

Fiddler's Green

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A legendary afterlife for retired sailors, where there is perpetual mirth, fiddle music, and dancing.
  2. A place of frolic on shore.
  3. A stopping place for fallen cavalrymen on the path to the afterlife.

Word forms

Fiddler's Green Fiddlers' Green Fidlers' Green

Etymology

From 19th-century English maritime folklore.

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