Other forms: utopias
A utopia is an imagined place where everything is perfect. A socialist utopia, dream of a utopia, utopia is not on offer.
It is usually used sceptically, since the point of most utopias is that they cannot exist. The name was invented for a book and puns on Greek for no place and good place.
1nounutopiaAn imagined place where everything is perfect.
“The pamphlet promised a utopia and delivered a committee.”
utopia is a place.
Thomas More coined Utopia in 1516 from Greek ou, not, plus topos, a place: no-place, with a pun on eu-topos, good place.
New Latin
Ūtopia
English, today
utopia
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From New Latin Ūtopia. 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 (“not”) + τόπος (“place, region”) + -ία. Compare English topos and -ia.
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