polytopian
polytopian noun: someone who visits many places.
Noun
polytopian (plural polytopians)
- Someone who visits many places.
- Through which our polytopian and raconteur finds romance and the thrill of the highly unusual […]1948, Michigan Living - Motor News, volume XXXI
- Alex: […] Despite outward appearances, I am an artist, not an intrepid polytopian. / Fanny: Oh, Alex, for goodness sakes, yes you are. You're one of the original polytopians, don't dissemble. / Alex: Well, yes, I am. High adventure and stupefying risk are my metier.1985, Eric Overmyer, On the Verge; or, The Geography of Yearning (play), New York, N.Y.: Broadway Play Publishing Inc., published 1986, page 32
- Synonyms:
- peregrinator
Adjective
polytopian (comparative more polytopian, superlative most polytopian)
- Existing or occurring in many places.
- But what we need just as desperately is a new and different politics, the politics of new spaces of liberty (to paraphrase Negri and Guattari), a politics capable of acknowledging that a true solidarity and an absolute singularity, far from being mutually exclusive, are in fact conditioned on each...1995 Fall, Kenneth Surin, “On Producing the Concept of a Global Culture”, in The South Atlantic Quarterly, volume 94, number 4, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1196
- As the women discover their own polytopian tendencies to be the structuring principle of the new world of the future, their celebration of the language of faraway places turns out to have unexpected totalitarian powers: […]1995, Una Chaudhuri, Staging Place: The Geography of Modern Drama, Ann Arbor, M.I.: The University of Michigan Press, published 1997, →ISBN, page 143
Synonyms of polytopian
Forms of polytopian
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | polytopians |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more polytopian |
| superlative | most polytopian |
Origin of polytopian
From poly- + Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos, “place”) + -ian, apparently influenced by utopian.
Questions about polytopian
- What does polytopian mean?
- Polytopian means someone who visits many places.
- What part of speech is polytopian?
- Polytopian can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of polytopian?
- The plural of polytopian is polytopians.
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