Arcady
- proper noun
- Archaic
:
Arcadia
- Every summer, we visit a cottage in the countryside that feels like Arcady, surrounded by fields and quiet streams.
Examples
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The poet described the serene beauty of Arcady as a perfect escape from the chaos of city life.
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The dream of "Arcady" can be entertained anywhere -- even in the real Arcadia.
Academic text (1998) -
This is pastoral "Arcady"?
Academic text (1998) -
I wanted to put together the rebarbative geography and the emollient verse, so I went down from Athens to spend a week in Keats's "dales of Arcady."
Academic text (1998) -
The Loves of the Plants is no libertine debauchery, but more a tale of pleasantly courting rustics and gentlefolk in Arcady.
Academic text (1993) -
In my dreams, I often find myself wandering through the lush landscapes of Arcady, where life is simple and peaceful.
Synonyms
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8.6
An imagined peaceful place in nature where people live simply and happily
Antonyms
- Specialized
11
4.6
A change that makes a place more like a city with more people living and working there
How Idyllic
192
4.0
- Archaic
- Literature
1
8.1
69
4.2
∞
1.0
136
1.1
Surface Forms
Etymology
Arcady comes from Arcadia, a region in Greece that poets long ago imagined as a place of simple life and quiet nature, a 'peaceful rural paradise'. So when writers use Arcady they mean an ideal country place of calm and beauty.