Meaning of UTOPIA
| Pronunciation: | | yoo'towpeeu, yû'towpeeu
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- [n] a book by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island
- [n] an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal
- [n] ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political and moral aspects
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| | Synonyms: | | New Latin Utopia, Sion, Zion |
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| | Antonyms: | | dystopia | | |
| | See Also: | | book, Erewhon, imaginary place, state | |
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| | Definition: | |  Utopia
Presents the English statesman's classic denunciation of sixteenth-century tyranny and corruption, and vision of an ideal society more details ... |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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