Fiddler's Green
Fiddler's Green proper noun: a legendary afterlife for retired sailors, where there is perpetual mirth, fiddle music, and dancing.
Proper noun
Fiddler's Green
- A legendary afterlife for retired sailors, where there is perpetual mirth, fiddle music, and dancing.
- Sam Tyler: Where to now?
Gene Hunt: Fiddler's Green.
Sam Tyler: I hope that's the name of a pub.2007 March 6, Julie Rutterford, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 3
- Sam Tyler: Where to now?
- A place of frolic on shore.
- A stopping place for fallen cavalrymen on the path to the afterlife.
- Fiddler's Green is where a cavalryman meets his comrades who have gone before him, at an old canteen, surrounded by a broad meadow, dotted with trees and crossed by many streams. Here the cavalryman stops, unsaddles his horse, and joins his comrades for a visit with many stories, reminiscences, and...1996, Edward L. Daily, We Remember: U.S. Cavalry Association, Turner Publishing Company, page 7
Forms of Fiddler's Green
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Origin of Fiddler's Green
From 19th-century English maritime folklore.
Questions about Fiddler's Green
- What does Fiddler's Green mean?
- Fiddler's Green means a legendary afterlife for retired sailors, where there is perpetual mirth, fiddle music, and dancing.
- What part of speech is Fiddler's Green?
- Fiddler's Green is a proper noun.
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