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UTOPIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Utopia" is a kind of...):
fictitious place; imaginary place; mythical place (a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A work of fiction describing a utopia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("utopia" is a kind of...):
fiction (a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A book written by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Instance hypernyms:
book (a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together))
Derivation:
Utopian (of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political and moral aspects
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("utopia" is a kind of...):
state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes)
Antonym:
dystopia (state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror)
Derivation:
utopian (characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection)
