Arcadia
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- noun
- /ɑrˈkeɪdiə/
- Literature
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Arcadia
- Who can help but contrast the beautiful, the practical settings of the arcadia shopping hub and the whittier quad with what you'd find under communism?
They can leave to pursue the Alessian Dream, a glimpse and far off Arcadias, or they stay.
- They can leave to pursue the Alessian Dream, a glimpse and far off Arcadias, or they stay.
Examples
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The new age brought by Bolivar's victory at Junin and Ayacucho is a pastoral arcadia:
Academic text (2001) -
They can leave to pursue the Alessian Dream, a glimpse and far off Arcadias, or they stay.
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This is the description of this Arcadia of the Pastoral.
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Death also fills this arcadia.
Academic text (2001) -
It was an arcadia for Pleistocene hunters, but it was not the Pleistocene.
Fiction book (2002) -
Given these traditional aspirations, it was natural that the earliest favorable vision of America was that of a rural arcadia in which the Irish could live in security, ease, and plenty, surrounded by their rich and ample lands, "with no man to make them afraid." 61
Academic text (1990) -
His panoramic vision of the "results" of many years of "sacrifices," an idealized arcadia annexed to the metropole, was brought to a premature end by an incendiary act of violence.
Academic text (2004) -
Against the backdrop of an impossibly rococo arcadia, an assortment of beribboned, bewigged, pomaded, and pantalooned twerps and nincompoops spoon and sport.
Blog text (32) -
The park was a serene Arcadia, where families enjoyed picnics under the shade of ancient trees.
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After a long week of work, she found her Arcadia in the quiet countryside, surrounded by rolling hills and flowers.
Synonyms
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4.0
A place or state of perfect happiness and peace
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7.9
An imagined perfect place where people live together happily
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9.9
A magical island in King Arthur stories where people go to heal
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9.9
A peaceful, happy place in Greek myth where heroes and good people go after death
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6.8
A place or state that has great happiness and peace
An ideal peaceful countryside in poems and art
How Idyllic
Surface Forms
Etymology
Arcadia comes from the Greek region Arkadia, which poets long ago described as a quiet land of shepherds and natural beauty. So Arcadia now means an ideal place of 'simple, peaceful happiness and natural beauty'.