Utopias - English meaning

proper noun

A mountainous district in the peloponnese of southern greece. in poetic fantasy it represents a pastoral paradise and in greek mythology it is the home of pan.

noun

An image or idea of life in the countryside that is believed to be perfect

noun

An ideal rustic paradise.

Usage examples:

As revell puts it in his prefatory note: ‘the arcady all around.’

noun

Perfect happiness; great joy.

Usage examples:

She gave a sigh of bliss

verb

Reach a state of perfect happiness, oblivious of everything else.

Usage examples:

Josh is just blissed out, always smiling

proper noun

The place where adam and eve lived in the biblical account of the creation, from which they were expelled for disobediently eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

noun

A place or state of great happiness; an unspoilt paradise.

Usage examples:

The lost eden of his childhood

proper noun

The place at the ends of the earth to which certain favoured heroes were conveyed by the gods after death.

noun

A place or state of perfect happiness.

Usage examples:

Had they in fact found an elysium that had eluded me in my journeys?

noun

A state of great happiness

Usage examples:

Everything was perfect. she was in elysium.

noun

A place regarded in various religions as the abode of god (or the gods) and the angels, and of the good after death, often traditionally depicted as being above the sky.

Usage examples:

Those who practised good deeds would receive the reward of a place in heaven

noun

An extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque period or situation, typically an idealized or unsustainable one.

Usage examples:

The rural idyll remains strongly evocative in most industrialized societies

noun

(in buddhism) a transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth. it represents the final goal of buddhism.

Usage examples:

The fundamental teaching of the buddha is the four dharma seals: impermanence, no-self, suffering a…

noun

A state of freedom from all suffering that buddhists believe can be achieved by removing all personal wishes

noun

(in some religions) heaven as the ultimate abode of the just.

Usage examples:

Martyrs who die in battle with the ungodly earn instant transmission to paradise

noun

An imaginary, beautiful place, often far away, where everything is pleasant and you can get everything you want

Usage examples:

New york is a shopper's shangri-la.