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/
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US:/juˈtoʊ.pi.ə/
rhymes with -əʊpiə
homophone: eutopia
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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