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"etymology_text": "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.",
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"word": "anti-utopia"
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"word": "cyberutopia"
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"word": "eutopia"
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{
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{
"word": "infotopia"
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"word": "intimatopia"
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"word": "pornotopia"
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{
"word": "privatopia"
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"word": "romantopia"
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{
"word": "sextopia"
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{
"word": "technoutopia"
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"word": "techno-utopian"
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{
"word": "technoutopian"
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{
"word": "technotopian"
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"word": "unutopia"
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{
"word": "utopian"
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{
"word": "Utopian"
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"word": "utopic"
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"word": "utopical"
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"ref": "1945, Chimera: A Literary Quarterly, page 22",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1959, Civilisations, page 426",
"text": "« Some peoples of Central or South Africa have conceived downright utopiae which enable them to build up a reality more tolerable than that in which they have to live daily ».",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 131",
"text": "As everyone knows, almost all booked passenger and freight trains are diagrammed into rosters for engines and men, and in an operating Utopia everything would work out daily according to plan.",
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{
"ref": "1974, The Chesterton Review, page 262",
"text": "Efficiency for the sake of efficiency, unchallenged authority conferred upon those who know well a few things and ignore everything else, disdain for the ordinary and humble elements that introduce happiness in our lives, worship of unattainable utopiae, are some of the features of the scheme which leads inevitably to the suppression of the eternal gifts bestowed by God upon every human person and to the frightful prospect of being ruled by what he vividly names “the Empire of the Insect.”",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1979, Ian Scott-Kilvert, editor, British Writers, page 242",
"text": "Orwell had correctly seen that the achievement of Wells’s ideas would be far from the frivolity of “Utopiae full of nude women” and visions of “super garden cities.”",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1979, Folk-lore, page 118",
"text": "An interesting observation is that folk verses while talking of high standards of morality refer only to precedent generations and not to would-be utopiae, which in fact would rule out the possibility of evolution of a civilization absent before.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "1995, Cynthia Robinson, Palace Architecture and Ornament in the \"Courtly\" Discourse of the Muluk Al-tawaʻif: Metaphor and Utopia, pages 96, 326, and 582",
"text": "According to his model, palace and poetry function in tandem in order to communicate to an audience the ideas of utopiae of power, victory, eternity, and perfection. […] The ruins function, not as an evocation of past civilizations, but as the setting for the poet's dallying and revelry in youthful pleasures; his \"noble companions\" (probably Christians, given the reference to the length of their hair) are subjugated to the length of their pleasure, a reference to the \"stopping of time\", one of the utopiae out of which was constructed the licentious world of the khamriyya. […] I believe that these two utopiae are related to a profound consciousness, on the part of taifa royalty and courtiers, of the particular mutability of their reality: […]",
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{
"ref": "2006, Können uns und euch und niemand helfen, page 121",
"text": "So in order to conclude, how can we combine all these different aspects of the characteristic cross-relationship of negative and positive utopiae which are to be understood as counter projects to what there actually is?",
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{
"ref": "2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 22, page 30",
"text": "As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.",
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"A world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony."
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"word": "heaven"
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"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
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"roman": "ṭūbāʔiyya",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
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"roman": "madīnatun fāḍila",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
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"word": "مَدِينَةٌ فَاضِلَة"
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"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "utopia",
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"word": "ուտոպիա"
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"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
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"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "iuṭōpiẏa",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "ইউটোপিয়া"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "烏托邦"
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{
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "wūtuōbāng",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "乌托邦"
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"code": "cmn",
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"word": "桃花源"
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "烏有鄉"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "wūyǒuxiāng",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "乌有乡"
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "utopio"
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{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "utoopia"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "utopia"
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{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"tags": [
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"word": "utopie"
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "utopía"
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{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "uṭoṗia",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "უტოპია"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "Utopie"
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{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "outopía",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "utopiya",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "אוטופיה"
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{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "yūṭopiyā",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "यूटोपिया"
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{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "māyānagrī",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "मायानगरी"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "utópia"
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{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "útópía"
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{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "utopio"
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{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "utopia"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "rat sidi"
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{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "útóipe"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "utopia"
},
{
"alt": "りそうきょう",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "risōkyō",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "理想郷"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "yūtopia",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "ユートピア"
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{
"alt": "おうごんせかい",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ōgon sekai",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "黄金世界"
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{
"code": "kn",
"lang": "Kannada",
"roman": "yuṭopiya",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "ಯುಟೊಪಿಯ"
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{
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"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "утопия"
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{
"alt": "理想鄕",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "isanghyang",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "이상향"
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{
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"roman": "yutopia",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "유토피아"
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{
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"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
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"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
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"feminine"
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"word": "utopija"
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"feminine"
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"code": "dsb",
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"feminine"
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"code": "mk",
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"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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{
"code": "ms",
"lang": "Malay",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "utopia"
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{
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "uṭṭōpya",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "ഉട്ടോപ്യ"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "ao houlura"
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{
"code": "no",
"lang": "Norwegian",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
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{
"code": "oc",
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"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
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{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "armanshahr",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "آرمانشهر"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "utopia"
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
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"feminine"
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"word": "utopia"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
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"feminine"
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"word": "уто́пия"
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{
"code": "sgs",
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"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "utuopėjė"
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{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
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"word": "уто̀пија"
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{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"tags": [
"Roman",
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"word": "utòpija"
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{
"code": "sk",
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"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
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"feminine"
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{
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"feminine"
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{
"code": "es",
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"feminine"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
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{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "yuṭṭōpiyā",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "யுட்டோபியா"
},
{
"code": "te",
"lang": "Telugu",
"roman": "ādarśadhāmaṁ",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "ఆదర్శధామం"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "daen nai oo-dom ká-dtì",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "ดินแดนในอุดมคติ"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "ùt-dtà-má-rát",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "อุตมรัฐ"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "ยูโทเปีย"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "ütopya"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "utopija",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "утопія"
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{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "شہر ارمان"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "utopiya"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
"word": "utopia"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "world in perfect harmony",
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"feminine"
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"code": "cy",
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"ref": "1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 131",
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"ref": "1995, Cynthia Robinson, Palace Architecture and Ornament in the \"Courtly\" Discourse of the Muluk Al-tawaʻif: Metaphor and Utopia, pages 96, 326, and 582",
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