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Look up: Utopia

  1. Utopia
    Utopia is a Greek word meaning 'nowhere' and the name for an ideal community. It is the title of the book written in 1516 by Sir Thomas More in which he describes an island with perfect inhabitants and laws.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/nol.php

  2. Utopia
    [n] - ideally perfect state 2. [n] - an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal 3. [n] - a book by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Utopia
    Social and political satire written in Latin by Thomas More, whose friend Erasmus arranged its publication in Louvain in 1516. In the first part of the book a traveller outlines the shortcomings of...
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  4. Utopia
    Any ideal state in literature, named after philosopher Thomas More's ideal commonwealth in his book Utopia 1516. Other versions include Plato's Republic, Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, and City of...
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  5. utopia
    an interface that connects ATM devices at the physical(PHY)layer,the bottom layer of the ATM reference model.Utopia is an electrical interface that links the transmission convergence(TC)and physical medium dependent(PMD)sublayers of the PHY layer Category: News-systems and communications
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  6. utopia
    1. An imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called Utopia, as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics, laws, and the like. See Utopia, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. ... 2. Hence, any place or state of ideal perfection. ... Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Not + a place. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  7. Utopia
    noun an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  8. Utopia
    noun a book written by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island
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  9. utopia
    noun ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political and moral aspects
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  10. Utopia
    `Utopia` is a fictional island near the coast of the Atlantic Ocean written about by Sir Thomas More as the fictional character Raphael Hythloday (translated from the Greek as `knowing in trifles`) recounts his experiences in his travels to the deliciously fictional island with a perfect social, legal, and political system. The name has come to mean, in popular parlance, an ideal society. As such, it has been used to describe both intentional com...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia

  11. Utopía
    `Utopía` , is the title of Mexican singer Belinda's second solo studio album, released on October 3, 2006, and revised with English tracks to be released in Germany and other parts of Europe on October 22, 2007.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopía

  12. Utopia
    • (n.) An imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called Utopia, as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics, laws, and the like. See Utopia, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. • (n.) Hence, any place or state of ideal perfection.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  13. Utopia
    (from the article `More, Sir Thomas`) In May 1515 More was appointed to a delegation to revise an Anglo-Flemish commercial treaty. The conference was held at Brugge, with long intervals ... The word first occurred in Sir Thomas More`s Utopia, published in Latin as Libellus . . . de optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia ... ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/u/20

  14. utopia
    an ideal commonwealth whose inhabitants exist under seemingly perfect conditions. Hence `utopian` and `utopianism` are words used to denote visionary ... [15 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/u/20

  15. utopia
    Form of literature whose setting is an imaginary world, political state or ideal society. Utopias often play a role in science fiction literature. Notice the difference between eutopias (good imaginary places) and dystopias or anti-utopias (bad imaginary places).
    Found on http://www.menrath-online.de/glossaryeng

  16. Utopia
    Utopia (yOOtō'pēu) [Gr.,=no place], title of a book by Sir Thomas More, published in Latin in 1516. The work pictures an ideal state where all is ordered for the best for humanity as a whole and where the evils of society, such as poverty and misery, have been eliminated. The popular...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0

  17. Utopia
    (Gr. ou-topos, the Land of Nowhere) An expression used by Sir Thomas More in his book 'De optimo reipublicae statu deque nova insular Utopia,' 1516, which in the form of a novel described an ideal state. Phto's Politeia is the first famous Utopia. Plato, however, hid several predecessors and followers in this type of literature. From the Renaissan...
    Found on http://www.ditext.com/runes/u.html


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