utopia
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7.6
- noun
- /juˈtoʊpiə/
- Literature
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utopía
- Many people seek a utopia in their dreams, imagining an ideal community.
- blueprint utopia
- critical utopia
- international utopias
Examples
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The novel describes a utopia where everyone lives in harmony and abundance.
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In his speech, he envisioned a utopia where poverty and war no longer existed.
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As far as utopias go, it has something for everybody.
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However, the critical utopia they describe seems more like some kind of postmodern heaven where nothing ever happens.
Academic text (1990) -
The world's first dragon-Viking utopia.
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As one longtime resident observed, "Dhahran was a utopia."
Academic text (2010) -
By whatever name proponents identify themselves and their worldview, the essential features of the new utopia are not difficult to discover.
Academic text (1991) -
Why don't we look at our utopias as mirrors for ourselves?
Blog text (13) -
Jonestown was a failed multicultural utopia of U.S. citizens who relocated to Guyana in the late 1970s.
Blog text (1)
Synonyms
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An imaginary place where everything is perfect and magical
Antonyms
- Literature
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A society where life is very bad because people suffer and have little freedom
How Ideal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Utopia comes from the Greek parts ou ('not') and topos ('place'), so it originally meant 'no place' — a country that does not exist. Thomas More used the name for a book about an ideal society and the word also hints at the Greek eu ('good'), so utopia can mean a book or story that describes a perfect society.