utopia

See also: Utopia, utópia, and utopía

English

Etymology

From New Latin Ūtopia, the name of a fictional island possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system in the book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More. Coined from Ancient Greek οὐ (ou, “not, no”) + τόπος (tópos, “place, region”) (English topos) + Latin -ia/Ancient Greek -ία (-ía), -εια (-eia) (English -ia).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /juˈtəʊpɪə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /juˈtoʊpi.ə/

Noun

utopia (countable and uncountable, plural utopias)

1. A world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony.
   • 2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly^[1], volume 188, number 22, page 30:

     As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.

Antonyms

• dystopia
• unutopia

Derived terms

Terms derived from utopia

• anti-utopia
• antiutopian
• cyberutopia
• cyberutopian
• cyberutopianism
• deutopianization
• eutopia

• eutopic
• nonutopian
• techno-utopian
• technoutopian
• utopian
• utopianism

• utopianist
• utopianistic
• utopianization
• utopianize
• utopianly
• utopiast

• utopiate
• utopic
• utopical
• utopism
• utopist
• utopistic

Translations

world in perfect harmony

• Albanian: utopia
• Arabic: مَدِينَة فَاضِلَة‏‎ f (madīna(t) fāḍila)
• Armenian: ուտոպիա (hy) (utopia)
• Azeri: utopiya
• Basque: utopia (eu)
• Belarusian: ўтопія f (ŭtopija)
• Bengali: ইউটোপিয়া (iuṭopiya)
• Bulgarian: утопия (bg) f (utopija)
• Catalan: utopia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 烏托邦 (zh), 乌托邦 (zh) (wūtuōbāng), 桃花源 (zh) (táohuāyuán), 烏有鄉, 乌有乡 (wūyǒuxiāng)

• Czech: utopie f
• Danish: utopi
• Dutch: utopie (nl)
• Esperanto: utopio (eo)
• Estonian: utoopia
• Finnish: utopia
• French: utopie (fr) f
• Galician: utopía f
• Georgian: უტოპია (uṭoṗia)
• German: Utopie (de) f
• Greek: ουτοπία (el) f (outopía)
• Hebrew: אוטופיה‏‎ (he) f (utopiya)
• Hindi: यूटोपिया f (yūṭopiyā)
• Hungarian: utópia (hu)
• Icelandic: útópía
• Ido: utopio (io)
• Indonesian: utopia (id)
• Irish: útóipe f
• Italian: utopia (it) f
• Japanese: 理想郷 (ja) (りそうきょう, risōkyō), ユートピア (yūtopia), 黄金世界 (おうごんせかい, ōgon sekai)
• Kannada: ಯುಟೊಪಿಯ (yuṭopiya)

• Kazakh: утопия (wtopïya)
• Korean: 이상향 (isanghyang)
• Latvian: utopija (lv) f
• Lithuanian: utopija (lt) f
• Lower Sorbian: utopija f
• Macedonian: утопија f (utopija)
• Malay: utopia
• Malayalam: ഉട്ടോപ്യ (uṭṭōpya)
• Norwegian: utopi m
• Occitan: utopia (oc)
• Persian: آرمان‌شهر‏‎ (fa) (armanshahr)
• Polish: utopia (pl) f
• Portuguese: utopia (pt) f
• Romanian: utopie (ro) f
• Russian: уто́пия (ru) f (utópija)
• Samogitian: utuopėjė f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: уто̀пија f

  Roman: utòpija (sh) f

• Slovak: utópia f
• Slovene: utopija f
• Spanish: utopía (es) f
• Swedish: utopi (sv) c
• Tamil: யுட்டோபியா (yuṭṭōpiyā)
• Telugu: ఆదర్శధామం (ādarśadhāmaṃ)
• Thai: ดินแดนในอุดมคติ (daen nai oo-dom ká-dtì), อุตมรัฐ (th), ยูโทเปีย (th)
• Turkish: ütopya (tr)
• Ukrainian: утопія (uk) f (utopija)
• Uzbek: utopiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: utopia (vi)
• Welsh: wtopia f, iwtopia f

See also

• heaven
• paradise

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Catalan

Noun

utopia f (plural utopies)

1. utopia

Derived terms

• utòpic

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Finnish

(index u)

Etymology

From New Latin Utopia, the name of a fictional island, possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system in the book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More. Coined from Ancient Greek οὐ (ou, “not, no”) + τόπος (tópos, “place, region”).

Noun

utopia

1. utopia

Declension

Inflection of utopia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation)
nominative		utopia	utopiat
genitive		utopian	utopioiden utopioitten
partitive		utopiaa	utopioita
illative		utopiaan	utopioihin
		singular	plural
nominative		utopia	utopiat
accusative	nom.	utopia	utopiat
	gen.	utopian
genitive		utopian	utopioiden utopioitten utopiainrare
partitive		utopiaa	utopioita
inessive		utopiassa	utopioissa
elative		utopiasta	utopioista
illative		utopiaan	utopioihin
adessive		utopialla	utopioilla
ablative		utopialta	utopioilta
allative		utopialle	utopioille
essive		utopiana	utopioina
translative		utopiaksi	utopioiksi
instructive		—	utopioin
abessive		utopiatta	utopioitta
comitative		—	utopioineen

Anagrams

• toipua

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Italian

Etymology

From New Latin Utopia, the name of a fictional island, possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system in the book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More. Coined from Ancient Greek οὐ (ou, “not, no”) + τόπος (tópos, “place, region”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /utoːpja/
• Hyphenation: u‧to‧pì‧a

Noun

utopia f (plural utopie)

1. utopia

Antonyms

• distopia

Derived terms

• utopico
• utopista

Related terms

• utopistico

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Portuguese

Etymology

From New Latin Utopia, the name of a fictional island, possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system in the book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More. Coined from Ancient Greek οὐ (ou, “not, no”) + τόπος (tópos, “place, region”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: u‧to‧pi‧a

Noun

utopia f (plural utopias)

1. utopia

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈto.pja/

Noun

utopia f (plural utopias)

1. Alternative form of utopía

References

• “utopia” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.