utopia

Syllables: u·to·pi·a/juːˈtəʊ.pi.ə//juˈtoʊ.pi.ə/

utopia noun: a world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony.

Noun (1)

utopia (countable and uncountable, plural utopia or utopias or utopiae)

A world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony.
- Errors in time must be kept in mind when analyzing myths and utopiae. Utopiae are merely projections, on a less personal and wider scale, of Cinderella’s longing for a happy future.1945, Chimera: A Literary Quarterly, page 22
- « Some peoples of Central or South Africa have conceived downright utopiae which enable them to build up a reality more tolerable than that in which they have to live daily ».1959, Civilisations, page 426
Synonyms:

paradise

Noun (2) capitalized: Utopia

Utopia (countable and uncountable, plural Utopias)

Alternative letter-case form of utopia.
- Women ought, perhaps, always to make the best critics—at once more quicksighted, more tasteful, more sympathetic than ourselves, whose proper business is creation. Perhaps in Utopia they will take the reviewer’s business entirely off our hands, as they are said to be doing already, by the by, in...1849 March, Charles Kingsley, “The Poetry of Sacred and Legendary Art”, in Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time, with Other Papers, author’s edition, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1859...
- [I]f it sounds Utopian to say that Christianity can save the world—remember, it is Utopia or hell!1932 July 18, William H[enry] Dunphy, quotee, “Anti-Christian War Is Traced to Russia […

utopia meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

utopia in Hindi

world in perfect harmony: यूटोपिया yūṭopiyā, मायानगरी māyānagrī

utopia in Tamil

world in perfect harmony: யுட்டோபியா yuṭṭōpiyā

utopia in Urdu

world in perfect harmony: شہر ارمان

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utopia in Bengali: ইউটোপিয়া iuṭōpiẏa
utopia in Telugu: ఆదర్శధామం ādarśadhāmaṁ
utopia in Malayalam: ഉട്ടോപ്യ uṭṭōpya
utopia in Kannada: ಯುಟೊಪಿಯ yuṭopiya
utopia in Punjabi: ਯੂਟੋਪੀਆ, ਇਉਟੋਪੀਆ
utopia in Gujarati: યુટોપિયા, યૂટોપિયા
utopia in Odia: ଯ଼ୁଟୋପିଆ, ଉଟୋପିଆ
utopia in Nepali: यूटोपिया, युटोपिया
utopia in Arabic: طُوبَائِيَّة ṭūbāʔiyya, مَدِينَةٌ فَاضِلَة madīnatun fāḍila
utopia in Malay: utopia
utopia in Indonesian: utopia
utopia in Persian: آرمانشهر ârmân-šahr, مدینهٔ فاضله madine-ye fâzele
utopia in Thai: ดินแดนในอุดมคติ daen nai oo-dom ká-dtì, อุตมรัฐ ùt-dtà-má-rát, ยูโทเปีย
utopia in Vietnamese: địa đàng

Examples of utopia in a sentence

As everyone knows, almost all booked passenger and freight trains are diagrammed into rosters for engines and men, and in an operating Utopia everything would work out daily according to plan.1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 131:
Orwell had correctly seen that the achievement of Wells’s ideas would be far from the frivolity of “Utopiae full of nude women” and visions of “super garden cities.”1979, Ian Scott-Kilvert, editor, British Writers, →ISBN, page 242:
As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast.2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 22, archived from the original on...

All 23 example sentences with utopia

Synonyms of utopia

paradise

Antonyms

Forms of utopia

plural	utopia
plural	utopias
plural	utopiae
alternative form	Utopia
plural	Utopias

Plural of utopia: utopia or utopias

Origin of 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.

Words formed from utopia

Words that rhyme with utopia

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Questions about utopia

What does utopia mean?: Utopia means a world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony.
What is utopia in Hindi?: Utopia in Hindi is यूटोपिया (yūṭopiyā), मायानगरी (māyānagrī). See Utopia meaning in Hindi.
How do you use utopia in a sentence?: As everyone knows, almost all booked passenger and freight trains are diagrammed into rosters for engines and men, and in an operating Utopia everything would work out daily according to plan.
What part of speech is utopia?: Utopia is a noun.
How do you pronounce utopia?: Utopia is pronounced /juːˈtəʊ.pi.ə/ (UK).
What is the plural of utopia?: The plural of utopia is utopia.

Words near utopia in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: utopia (page history and authors); Utopia (page history and authors); utopia (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); utopia (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); utopia (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); utopia (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); utopia (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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