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Utopia

Utopia

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A 1516 book by Sir Thomas More describing an ideal island society
  • proper noun
  • /juˈtoʊpiə/
  • Literature
translation icon : Utopía
  • According to Gimbutas, this feminist Utopia thrived in the Danube Valley and the Balkans for 2,000 years.
  • Thomas More's Utopia
  • More's Utopia
  • Ideology and Utopia

Examples

  • The Prince has read Utopia?

    EverAfter (1998)

  • "Please, sir," said I, "can you find Utopia?" "Of course, little lady," said the Director.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Do you believe in Utopia?

    The Nile Hilton Incident (2017)

  • You may not know it, but right here you have Utopia.

    Lost Horizon (1937)

  • For unless this is so, Utopia cannot be Utopia, for then the perfect society will not perfectly satisfy everyone.

    Academic text (1994)

  • What about the people that don't buy into your Utopia, your new world?

    30,000 Leagues Under The Sea (2007)

  • "Yes, it looks rather as if the Utopia we long speculated about is finally here."

    Fiction book (2000)

  • At $350 a pint, it ought to be. And now that I've found Utopia, I am at peace.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Meaning "tents of peace," the village was an eighteenth-century Utopia founded by a Moravian missionary.

    Academic text (2011)

  • In Sir Thomas More's book, Utopia, he describes an ideal society on an imaginary island.

Surface Forms

Utopia main

Etymology

Utopia gets its name from Greek ou- 'not' and topos 'place'. Sir Thomas More also played on Greek eu- 'good', so the title sounds like both 'no place' and 'good place', and he used that idea to describe an imaginary island that criticizes his own society.