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单词 arcadia
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arcadia

noun

ar·​ca·​dia är-ˈkā-dē-ə How to pronounce arcadia (audio)
often capitalized
: a region or scene of simple pleasure and quiet

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web In addition to creating a lively avian arcadia, the exhibition seeks to bring awareness to the various threats birds face and to comment on the fragility of the natural world. Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 17 June 2022 When the bulldozer returned a few days later, Ms. Park confronted it again, but this time she was joined by dozens of her neighbors in the south Indian arcadia of Auroville. New York Times, 5 Mar. 2022 The spareness feels like richness, an arcadia of silence and stillness that trains our attention on the actors’ every word and gesture. Elaine Blair, The New York Review of Books, 17 Dec. 2020 Reading becomes our temporary escape—our own arcadia. Tess Taylor, WSJ, 7 May 2021 But the house’s sprawling 24-acre grounds, a pastoral arcadia that looked ripped from the pages of Beatrix Potter, eventually won them over. Spencer Bailey, Town & Country, 27 Mar. 2021 Capofaro, its sharpest hotel, with new suites, sits in an organic arcadia of wildflowers, vines, and herbs, all used in-house (highlights: the Ragusano cheese, the homegrown loquats). Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2019 See More

Word History

Etymology

Arcadia, region of ancient Greece frequently chosen as background for pastoral poetry

First Known Use

1847, in the meaning defined above

Geographical Definition

Arcadia

geographical name

Ar·​ca·​dia är-ˈkā-dē-ə How to pronounce Arcadia (audio)
1
city in southwestern California east-northeast of Los Angeles population 56,364
2
mountainous region of southern Greece in the central part of the Peloponnese

see also arcadian sense 2

arcadia

noun

as in utopia

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  • utopia
  • fantasyland
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  • promised land
  • lotusland
  • heaven
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  • euphoria
  • Shangri-la
  • fairyland
  • blissfulness
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Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • dystopia
  • hell
  • anti-utopia
  • fool's paradise
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