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utopia

noun · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /juːˈtəʊ.pi.ə/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • US: /juˈtoʊ.pi.ə/
  • rhymes with -əʊpiə
  • homophone: eutopia
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: Y UW0 T OW1 P IY0 AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Alternative letter-case form of utopia.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Zion, Sion

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: imaginary place, mythical place, fictitious place

4

noun

Meaning 4

a work of fiction describing a utopia

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: fiction

5

noun

Meaning 5

a book written by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: book

6

noun

Meaning 6

ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political and moral aspects

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: dystopia

Broader terms: state

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek οὐ (ou) Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos) Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh2 Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) New Latin Ūtopiader. English utopia 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”) + τόπος (tópos, “place, region”) + -ία (-ía). Compare English topos and -ia.

Across languages

Translations

78 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: utopia — world in perfect harmony
  • Arabic: طُوبَائِيَّة (ṭūbāʔiyya) — world in perfect harmony
  • Arabic: مَدِينَةٌ فَاضِلَة (madīnatun fāḍila) — world in perfect harmony
  • Armenian: ուտոպիա (utopia) — world in perfect harmony
  • Azerbaijani: utopiya — world in perfect harmony
  • Basque: utopia — world in perfect harmony
  • Belarusian: ўтопія (wtópija) — world in perfect harmony
  • Bengali: ইউটোপিয়া (iuṭōpiẏa) — world in perfect harmony
  • Bulgarian: утопия (utopija) — world in perfect harmony
  • Catalan: utopia — world in perfect harmony
  • Chinese Mandarin: 烏托邦 /乌托邦 (wūtuōbāng) — world in perfect harmony
  • Chinese Mandarin: 桃花源 (táohuāyuán) — world in perfect harmony
  • Chinese Mandarin: 烏有鄉 /乌有乡 (wūyǒuxiāng) — world in perfect harmony
  • Czech: utopie — world in perfect harmony
  • Danish: utopi — world in perfect harmony
  • Dutch: utopie — world in perfect harmony
  • Esperanto: utopio — world in perfect harmony
  • Estonian: utoopia — world in perfect harmony
  • Finnish: utopia — world in perfect harmony
  • French: utopie — world in perfect harmony
  • Galician: utopía — world in perfect harmony
  • Georgian: უტოპია (uṭoṗia) — world in perfect harmony
  • German: Utopie — world in perfect harmony
  • Greek: ουτοπία (outopía) — world in perfect harmony
  • Hebrew: אוטופיה (utopiya) — world in perfect harmony
  • Hindi: यूटोपिया (yūṭopiyā) — world in perfect harmony
  • Hindi: मायानगरी (māyānagrī) — world in perfect harmony
  • Hungarian: utópia — world in perfect harmony
  • Icelandic: útópía — world in perfect harmony
  • Ido: utopio — world in perfect harmony
  • Indonesian: utopia — world in perfect harmony
  • Irish: útóipe — world in perfect harmony
  • Italian: utopia — world in perfect harmony
  • Japanese: 理想郷 (risōkyō) — world in perfect harmony
  • Japanese: ユートピア (yūtopia) — world in perfect harmony
  • Japanese: 黄金世界 (ōgon sekai) — world in perfect harmony
  • Kannada: ಯುಟೊಪಿಯ (yuṭopiya) — world in perfect harmony
  • Kazakh: утопия (utopiä) — world in perfect harmony
  • Korean: 이상향 (isanghyang) — world in perfect harmony
  • Korean: 유토피아 (yutopia) — world in perfect harmony
  • Korean: 리상향 (risanghyang) — world in perfect harmony
  • Latvian: utopija — world in perfect harmony
  • Lithuanian: utopija — world in perfect harmony
  • Macedonian: утопија (utopija) — world in perfect harmony
  • Malay: utopia — world in perfect harmony
  • Malayalam: ഉട്ടോപ്യ (uṭṭōpya) — world in perfect harmony
  • Māori: ao houkura — world in perfect harmony
  • Norwegian: utopi — world in perfect harmony
  • Occitan: utopia — world in perfect harmony
  • Persian: آرمانشهر (ârmân-šahr) — world in perfect harmony
  • Persian: مدینهٔ فاضله (madine-ye fâzele) — world in perfect harmony
  • Polish: utopia — world in perfect harmony
  • Portuguese: utopia — world in perfect harmony
  • Romanian: utopie — world in perfect harmony
  • Russian: уто́пия (utópija) — world in perfect harmony
  • Samogitian: utuopėjė — world in perfect harmony
  • Serbo-Croatian: уто̀пија — world in perfect harmony
  • Serbo-Croatian: utòpija — world in perfect harmony
  • Slovak: utópia — world in perfect harmony
  • Slovene: utopija — world in perfect harmony
  • Lower Sorbian: utopija — world in perfect harmony
  • Spanish: utopía — world in perfect harmony
  • Swedish: utopi — world in perfect harmony
  • Tamil: யுட்டோபியா (yuṭṭōpiyā) — world in perfect harmony
  • Telugu: ఆదర్శధామం (ādarśadhāmaṁ) — world in perfect harmony
  • Thai: ดินแดนในอุดมคติ (daen nai oo-dom ká-dtì) — world in perfect harmony
  • Thai: อุตมรัฐ (ùt-dtà-má-rát) — world in perfect harmony
  • Thai: ยูโทเปีย — world in perfect harmony
  • Tibetan: ཡུལ་ཏོ་པི་ཡ། (yul to pi ya) — world in perfect harmony
  • Turkish: ütopya — world in perfect harmony
  • Ottoman Turkish: وتوپیا (ütopya) — world in perfect harmony
  • Ukrainian: утопія (utopija) — world in perfect harmony
  • Urdu: شہر ارمان — world in perfect harmony
  • Uzbek: utopiya — world in perfect harmony
  • Vietnamese: địa đàng — world in perfect harmony
  • Welsh: wtopia — world in perfect harmony
  • Welsh: iwtopia — world in perfect harmony
  • Yiddish: וטאָפּיאַ (utopya) — world in perfect harmony
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