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Definition of Arcadian in English: Arcadiannoun ɑːˈkeɪdɪənɑrˈkeɪdiən 1A native of Arcadia. Example sentencesExamples - Now that Spartan backing was no longer a guarantee of political ascendancy, one Euphron, who had previously exploited Spartan favour, persuaded the Argives and Arcadians to help him install democracy.
- Then he tells him to become an ally with King Evander of the Arcadians who has been an enemy of the Latins for a long time.
- The Arcadians had their joint sanctuary at an even more remote place on the peak of Mt Lykaion 1400m metres high.
- I mean, it's from the Amorites and from the Arcadians even earlier that we have the Semitic language coming in, which is the basis for Phoenician, for Aramaic, for Hebrew and for the Arabic languages.
- Late in the year he went to the aid of the Arcadians, and was largely responsible for the crucial decision to press on with the invasion of the Spartan homeland - the first in historical times - and, above all, to free Messenia.
- 1.1literary An idealized country dweller.
Example sentencesExamples - The New Arcadians see their salvation in a return to Edenic innocence.
- Pastoral vagrancy, indeed, may be said to be the badge of all these tribes; but not theirs were the pastoral virtues of orthodox and legitimate Arcadians.
- I assure you, Mr. Dombey, Nature intended me for an Arcadian.
- Gallus, is never represented as a shepherd or true Arcadian.
adjective ɑːˈkeɪdɪənɑrˈkeɪdiən 1Relating to Arcadia. Example sentencesExamples - For starters, don't come to this show expecting to see a realistic Arcadian grove recreated on stage.
- The requests were the old ones: portraits of pretty mistresses done up as Arcadian shepherdesses, Virgins with downcast eyes and brilliant blue cloaks, sentimentalised pictures of the Infant Christ.
- For those who think of the 1960s and 1970s as an Arcadian period in pop, these past two months have been a return to Eden.
- She and the two boys end up playing in this Arcadian garden, and the uncle cries when he gets back from a business trip and realises how wonderful everything is.
- The working holiday had almost come to an end and it was time to leave this Arcadian corner of the country, where being parochial is a way of life.
- If one gets away from the avenues and visits the largest city park called Leisure Valley, it has an Arcadian beauty of clusters of flowering trees.
- But this Arcadian vision arose in spite of a volatile modern history.
- One in five of the pilots in the Battle of Britain came from overseas and, far from fighting for an Arcadian Britain, some were revenging the invasion of their homelands.
- He half jokingly talked about the loveliness of Michigan, painting it as an Arcadian paradise.
- The question of whether or not these works engage or create a sense of place, as opposed to the no-place of Arcadian utopia, is never asked.
- Dating back to the third century B.C., the landscape there approximates the Arcadian ideal and the site is famous for its oracle, who was mentioned by Herodotus.
- Even if we are less hopeful in the twenty-first century, perhaps we still need to have Arcadian dreams and where better to explore them than in ‘God's own Country’.
- The Tracker is a tale of an adventurous boyhood of limitless self-reliance in an unfathomably Arcadian wilderness.
- Despite its size, it is deliberately anti-monumental, its low curved bulk spread across a hillside on the edge of the village, and its green copper roof merging with the primal Arcadian landscape of southern Italy.
- They tended to disguise them on Italianate terraces surrounded by Tivoli garden stone statues, or site them in specially-built pool houses, where they were inevitably accompanied by Roman columns and Arcadian murals.
- And they raise two plastic cups of Scotch in a conciliatory toast ‘to the Arcadian dream‘.
- Giant photographs of Arcadian scenes are draped across concrete apartment blocks.
- The man reading, in the left foreground, evokes the Arcadian image of the shepherd reciting poetry in days of old.
- Toward the end of the decade, the artist took a trip to North Dakota and found a new but, in a way, still Arcadian theme: the cowboy on his horse in a frontier landscape.
- Frank Gehry's first building on a rural site is a model performance complex clad in swishing, sensuous steel drapery that animates its Arcadian campus setting.
- 1.1literary Relating to an ideal pastoral paradise.
Example sentencesExamples - The ‘fancy pictures’, Arcadian rustic themes like the Peasant Girl Gathering Sticks, led on to the sentiment of early Romanticism.
- Another strain on the Arcadian ideal in the late 1930s came from the haste with which war seemed about to repeat itself, a haste that wrought havoc with the archetypal narrative of loss and recovery.
- The prospect thus stands in direct, temporal opposition to the pastoral or Arcadian mode.
- The notion of the South as a rural idyll begins with the Arcadian visions of artists such as Samuel Palmer and John Linnell, inspired by the Kent landscape.
- In contrast to this patrician style, Jefferson cherished a vision of America as a rural retreat of Arcadian innocence.
Synonyms perfect, ideal, idealized, wonderful, blissful, halcyon, happy
Origin Late 16th century: from Latin Arcadius, from Greek Arkadia (see Arcadia). Rhymes Acadian, Akkadian, Barbadian, Canadian, circadian, Grenadian, Hadean, Orcadian, Palladian, radian, steradian Definition of Arcadian in US English: Arcadiannounärˈkādēənɑrˈkeɪdiən 1A native of Arcadia. Example sentencesExamples - Then he tells him to become an ally with King Evander of the Arcadians who has been an enemy of the Latins for a long time.
- I mean, it's from the Amorites and from the Arcadians even earlier that we have the Semitic language coming in, which is the basis for Phoenician, for Aramaic, for Hebrew and for the Arabic languages.
- Late in the year he went to the aid of the Arcadians, and was largely responsible for the crucial decision to press on with the invasion of the Spartan homeland - the first in historical times - and, above all, to free Messenia.
- The Arcadians had their joint sanctuary at an even more remote place on the peak of Mt Lykaion 1400m metres high.
- Now that Spartan backing was no longer a guarantee of political ascendancy, one Euphron, who had previously exploited Spartan favour, persuaded the Argives and Arcadians to help him install democracy.
- 1.1literary An idealized country dweller.
Example sentencesExamples - Gallus, is never represented as a shepherd or true Arcadian.
- I assure you, Mr. Dombey, Nature intended me for an Arcadian.
- The New Arcadians see their salvation in a return to Edenic innocence.
- Pastoral vagrancy, indeed, may be said to be the badge of all these tribes; but not theirs were the pastoral virtues of orthodox and legitimate Arcadians.
adjectiveärˈkādēənɑrˈkeɪdiən 1Relating to Arcadia. Example sentencesExamples - The man reading, in the left foreground, evokes the Arcadian image of the shepherd reciting poetry in days of old.
- The question of whether or not these works engage or create a sense of place, as opposed to the no-place of Arcadian utopia, is never asked.
- The requests were the old ones: portraits of pretty mistresses done up as Arcadian shepherdesses, Virgins with downcast eyes and brilliant blue cloaks, sentimentalised pictures of the Infant Christ.
- She and the two boys end up playing in this Arcadian garden, and the uncle cries when he gets back from a business trip and realises how wonderful everything is.
- But this Arcadian vision arose in spite of a volatile modern history.
- For starters, don't come to this show expecting to see a realistic Arcadian grove recreated on stage.
- They tended to disguise them on Italianate terraces surrounded by Tivoli garden stone statues, or site them in specially-built pool houses, where they were inevitably accompanied by Roman columns and Arcadian murals.
- Giant photographs of Arcadian scenes are draped across concrete apartment blocks.
- Despite its size, it is deliberately anti-monumental, its low curved bulk spread across a hillside on the edge of the village, and its green copper roof merging with the primal Arcadian landscape of southern Italy.
- And they raise two plastic cups of Scotch in a conciliatory toast ‘to the Arcadian dream‘.
- For those who think of the 1960s and 1970s as an Arcadian period in pop, these past two months have been a return to Eden.
- One in five of the pilots in the Battle of Britain came from overseas and, far from fighting for an Arcadian Britain, some were revenging the invasion of their homelands.
- Frank Gehry's first building on a rural site is a model performance complex clad in swishing, sensuous steel drapery that animates its Arcadian campus setting.
- Toward the end of the decade, the artist took a trip to North Dakota and found a new but, in a way, still Arcadian theme: the cowboy on his horse in a frontier landscape.
- Dating back to the third century B.C., the landscape there approximates the Arcadian ideal and the site is famous for its oracle, who was mentioned by Herodotus.
- Even if we are less hopeful in the twenty-first century, perhaps we still need to have Arcadian dreams and where better to explore them than in ‘God's own Country’.
- The working holiday had almost come to an end and it was time to leave this Arcadian corner of the country, where being parochial is a way of life.
- He half jokingly talked about the loveliness of Michigan, painting it as an Arcadian paradise.
- The Tracker is a tale of an adventurous boyhood of limitless self-reliance in an unfathomably Arcadian wilderness.
- If one gets away from the avenues and visits the largest city park called Leisure Valley, it has an Arcadian beauty of clusters of flowering trees.
- 1.1literary Relating to an ideal rustic paradise.
Example sentencesExamples - The prospect thus stands in direct, temporal opposition to the pastoral or Arcadian mode.
- The ‘fancy pictures’, Arcadian rustic themes like the Peasant Girl Gathering Sticks, led on to the sentiment of early Romanticism.
- The notion of the South as a rural idyll begins with the Arcadian visions of artists such as Samuel Palmer and John Linnell, inspired by the Kent landscape.
- In contrast to this patrician style, Jefferson cherished a vision of America as a rural retreat of Arcadian innocence.
- Another strain on the Arcadian ideal in the late 1930s came from the haste with which war seemed about to repeat itself, a haste that wrought havoc with the archetypal narrative of loss and recovery.
Synonyms perfect, ideal, idealized, wonderful, blissful, halcyon, happy
Origin Late 16th century: from Latin Arcadius, from Greek Arkadia (see Arcadia). |