UTOPIA
Dictionary entry overview: What does Utopia mean?
• UTOPIA (noun)
The noun UTOPIA has 4 senses:
1. a book written by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island
2. ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political and moral aspects
3. a work of fiction describing a utopia
4. an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal
Familiarity information: UTOPIA used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• UTOPIA (noun)
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))
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 condition of life is extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror)
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)
Meaning:
An imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
Sion; Zion; Utopia
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)
