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Meaning of utopia in English

(Definition of utopia from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of utopia from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of utopia

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He demands and directs change, compelling his companions to act, railing against hopelessness and disenchantment, against any allegiance to utopia.
That a vision of an organic agrarian-manufacturing utopia is elaborated in a large and dynamic industrial city seems, on the face of it, absurd.
These link utopias with heterotopias in ways which 'also bind people to particular identities, and to the political/practical consequences that they entail' (p. 172).
The analysis of women's work, of radical communal utopias, and of body metaphors severely limit the range of buildings that can be discussed.
Like all utopias, the future was intimately linked to the hopes and fears of the present.
Here, utopia is defined as a state of mind that 'transcends' existing realities in a revolutionary direction.
The term also offers authorization to interpret, enacts a wish, suggests a cultural utopia, or puts in place a political program.
The feminist utopia dramatizes a dream of social fellowship whose embryonic form is expressed in the bonds forged between writer, reader and a wider audience.
By including the virtues and designing out the vices of nineteenth-century life he sold his vision of utopia along practical and achievable lines.
Yet that failure is measured perhaps unrealistically against a goal nothing short of utopia and within a time frame of 25 to 40 years.
But it is not so clear that it always would be: that it could not be an essential part of a realistic utopia.
That was an era when utopias were needed and produced.
It is a sad sign of our times that this type of exile can resemble a utopia.
The birth of digital publication involves three motors: utopia, the norm, and conquering thought.
Elements of the two utopias, one personalistic-conservative, the other liberal-democratic, became intertwined in the ideas of the conflicting parties of mid century.
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Translations of utopia

in Chinese (Traditional)
烏托邦, 理想中的完美世界…
in Chinese (Simplified)
乌托邦, 理想中的完美世界…
in Spanish
utopía, Utopía…
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utopia…
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yeryüzü cenneti, hayali mükemmel toplum, ütopya…
Utopie…
Utopia…
Utopie…
Utopia…
utopia…
ดินแดนในอุดมคติ…
xã hôi không tưởng…
utopia…
Utopien, Utopia…
utopia…
die Utopie…
idealsamfunnet, utopi, Utopia…
утопія…
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