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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

utopia

Pronunciation / Transliteration: utopia

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Utopia/juːˈtoʊ.pi.ə/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #14200 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"No livro, o autor descreve uma utopia idealizada."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.

    "In her novel, the author describes a utopia where poverty and crime are nonexistent."
  2. 2

    A political or social scheme for a perfect society.

    "The community's utopia was based on principles of equality and shared resources."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Coined in 1516 by Sir Thomas More from the Ancient Greek prefix 'ou-' meaning 'not' and 'topos' meaning 'place', resulting in 'no-place'. It was cleverly punned with 'eutopia', meaning 'good place', to reflect an imaginary ideal society.

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