utopia
noun
[ juːˈtəʊpɪə ]
• an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.
• "misplaced faith in political utopias has led to ruin"
Similar:
ideal place,
paradise,
heaven,
heaven on earth,
Eden,
Garden of Eden,
Shangri-La,
Elysium,
the Elysian Fields,
Happy Valley,
seventh heaven,
idyll,
nirvana,
bliss,
Arcadia,
Arcady,
Erewhon,
Opposite:
hell on earth,
Origin:
mid 16th century: based on Greek ou ‘not’ + topos ‘place’; the word was first used in the book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More.
