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utopia
Utopia n 1: a book written by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island 2: ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political and moral aspects [ant: dystopia] 3: a work of fiction describing a utopia 4: an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal [syn: Utopia, Zion, Sion] utopia utopia upatoi utopia Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) utopia noun Etymology: Utopia, imaginary and ideal country in Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More, from Greek ou not, no + topos place Date: 1597 1. an imaginary and indefinitely remote place 2. often capitalized a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions 3. an impractical scheme for social improvement utopia Oxford English Reference Dictionary
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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary utopia (utopias) If you refer to an imaginary situation as a utopia, you mean that it is one in which society is perfect and everyone is happy, but which you feel is not possible. We weren't out to design a contemporary utopia. ...the social utopias of revolutionary peasants. N-VAR utopia English Explanatory Dictionary Utopia ju:ˈtəupjə n. an imagined perfect place or state of things. [title of a book (1516) by Thomas More: mod.L f. Gk ou not + topos place] utopia The Nuttall Encyclopaedia (1907) Utopia an imaginary island described by Sir Thomas More, and represented as possessing a perfect political organisation, and which has given name to all schemes which aim at the like impossible perfection, though often applied to such as are not so much impossible in themselves as impracticable for want of the due individual virtue and courage to realise them. utopia Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) UTOPIA Universal Test & Operations Physical layer Interface for ATM (PL, ATM) utopia Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Utopia \U*to"pi*a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. not + ? a place.] 1. An imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called Utopia, as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics, laws, and the like. See Utopia, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. 2. Hence, any place or state of ideal perfection. utopia Utopia, TX Zip code(s): 78884 utopia English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) Utopia ju:ˈtəupjə n. paradise, heaven, seventh heaven, (Garden of) Eden, bliss, cloud-cuckoo-land, Nephelococcygia, never-never land, Shangri-La, Cockaigne or Cockayne, heaven on earth, perfection: He dreams about a Utopia where everyone is rich and there are no taxes. utopia Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 67 Moby Thesaurus words for "utopia": Agapemone, Arcadia, Big Rock-Candy Mountain, Canaan, Cloudcuckooland, Cockaigne, Eden, Eldorado, Erewhon, Garden of Eden, Goshen, Happy Valley, Land of Youth, Laputa, Never-Never-land, Neverland, New Atlantis, Pandemonium, Quivira, Saturnia regna, Saturnian age, Shangri-la, Utopia, Zion, age of Aquarius, airy hope, arcadia, bubble, chimera, cloudland, dream, dreamland, dystopia, era of prosperity, faerie, fair weather, fairyland, golden age, golden dream, golden era, golden time, good times, halcyon days, heaven, heyday, kakotopia, kingdom come, land of dreams, land of enchantment, land of faerie, land of plenty, land of promise, lotus land, millennium, never-never, palmy days, paradise, pipe dream, piping times, promised land, prosperity, quixotic ideal, reign of Saturn, rosy era, sunshine, unreal hope, wonderland |
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