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utopia¹
- /juːˈtəʊ.pi.ə/ UK
- /juˈtoʊ.pi.ə/ US
Sounds like eutopia · Rhymes with -əʊpiə
Where it comes from
From New Latin Ūtopia, the name of a fictional island possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system in the book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More. Coined from Ancient Greek οὐ (ou, “not”) + τόπος (tópos, “place, region”) + -ία (-ía). Compare English topos and -ia.
noun utopia · utopias · utopiae · Utopia
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A world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony.
Errors in time must be kept in mind when analyzing myths and utopiae. Utopiae are merely projections, on a less personal and wider scale, of Cinderella’s longing for a happy future.
Similar: paradise
Utopia²
noun Utopias
- Alternative letter-case form of utopia Women ought, perhaps, always to make the best critics—at once more quicksighted, more tasteful, more sympathetic than ourselves, whose proper business is creation. Perhaps in Utopia they will take the reviewer’s business entirely off our hands, as they are said to be doing already, by the by, in one
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: zion, utopian, utopianism, paradise, myth, fantasy, dream, multitude, ideal, vision, eden, heaven, mirage, nirvana, arcadia, shangri-la
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noun world in perfect harmony
| Español | utopía |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 이상향 isanghyang, 유토피아 yutopia |
| 日本語 | 理想郷 risōkyō, ユートピア yūtopia, 黄金世界 ōgon sekai |
| 中文 | 烏托邦 /乌托邦 wūtuōbāng, 桃花源 táohuāyuán, 烏有鄉 /乌有乡 wūyǒuxiāng |
| हिन्दी | यूटोपिया yūṭopiyā, मायानगरी māyānagrī |
| Português | utopia |
| Français | utopie |
| Deutsch | Utopie |
| Italiano | utopia |
| Ελληνικά | ουτοπία outopía |
| Română | utopie |
| Русский | уто́пия utópija |
| Tiếng Việt | địa đàng |
| العربية | طُوبَائِيَّة ṭūbāʔiyya, مَدِينَةٌ فَاضِلَة madīnatun fāḍila |
| עברית | אוטופיה utopiya |
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title = {utopia},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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