arcadia
arcadia Lexical Profile
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• noun
Any real or imaginary place offering peace, simplicity, and untroubled pastoral contentment; a rural paradise.
"The poet retreated to a quiet cottage in the Lake District, hoping to find his own rural arcadia far from the industrial city."
A historical and modern mountainous regional unit in the central and southeastern Peloponnese peninsula of Greece, celebrated in classical antiquity as an idyllic pastoral domain of shepherds and the god Pan.
American A city in Los Angeles County in southern California, located at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains northeast of downtown Los Angeles, known for the Santa Anita Park racetrack and the Los Angeles County Arboretum.
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Latin Arcadia, from Ancient Greek Arkadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese named after the mythological hero Arcas. In classical and Renaissance pastoral poetry, the isolated region was idealized as an unspoiled wilderness of simple, harmonious country life.