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Utopia Definition

Uto·pia (yo̵̅o̅ tō′pē ə)

noun

  1. an imaginary island described in a book of the same name by Sir Thomas More (1516) as having a perfect political and social system
    1. any idealized place, state, or situation of perfection
    2. any visionary scheme or system for an ideally perfect society
    3. a novel or other work depicting a utopian society or place

Etymology: ModL < Gr ou, not + topos, a place: see topic

utopia Synonyms

utopia

n.

ideal place, idealized place, wonderland, paradise, land of milk and honey*; see also heaven 2.

Famous utopias include: the garden of Eden, Heaven, the Celestial City, Heavenly City, Land of Beulah, the New Jerusalem, the Promised Land, Zion, paradise, new Canaan, Goshen, Shangri-La, New Atlantis, Arcadia, Happy Valley, Land of Prester John, Kingdom of Micomicon, Laputa, Cockaigne, Erewhon, Camelot, Oz, Brook Farm.

Utopia Telecom Definition
From the Greek ou, meaning not, and topos, meaning place, and translating literally as no place.The word was first used by Sir Thomas More (1516) in his book Utopia as the name of an imaginary island that was the home of a perfect political and social system. In contemporary usage, utopia refers to an ideal place, state of being, or situation. (Note: Utopia sounds like no place I've ever been. If there were such a place, someone surely would foul it up. If not it would get so crowded that nobody would go there any more.)
Utopia Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • claim: Can overarching dogmas - such as Communism - deliver the kind of utopia claimed for it?
utopia Quotes

There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.

—Mailer, Norman Kingsley

   'The Art of Being Ruled'might be described from some points of view as an infernal Utopia. Rather than custom, it feels more like an invocation to an unknown deity when Cubans get together†they hold a suspenseful silence until any voice is heard saying or singing something that has nothing to do with the purpose of the meeting.

—Lezama Lima,Jose¤

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

—Hawthorne, Nathaniel