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Utopia 1100 Words You Need

Utopia 1100 Words You Need

/juːˈtəʊ.pi.ə/ (noun)

(the idea of) a perfect society in which everyone works well with each other and is happy, ideal, paradise, never-never-land, heaven, dreamland, Shangri-la, seventh heaven, perfect place:

The term “utopia” was coined 500 years ago. By conjoining the Greek adverb “ou” (“not”) and the noun “topos” (“place”) the English humanist and politician Thomas More conceived of a place that is not — literally a “nowhere” or “noplace.” More’s learned readers would also have recognized another pun. The pronunciation of “utopia” can just as well be associated with “eu-topia,” which in Greek means “happy place.” Happiness, More might have suggested, is something we can only imagine. And yet imagining it, as philosophers, artists and politicians have done ever since, is far from pointless.

Antonym: dystopia

Adj: utopian

Noun: utopianism

French: utopie

Farsi: مدینه فاضله


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