utopia: [16] Utopia means etymologically ‘noplace’. It was coined by the English statesman and scholar Sir Thomas More from Greek ou ‘not’ and tópos ‘place’ (source of English topic). He used it as the name of an imaginary island whose inhabitants had organized their society along the lines of what he regarded as a theoretically ideal commonwealth, which he described in his book Utopia 1516. The word was first used as a more general term for an ‘ideal place’ in the early 17th century. => topic
utopia (n.)
1551, from Modern Latin Utopia, literally "nowhere," coined by Thomas More (and used as title of his book, 1516, about an imaginary island enjoying the utmost perfection in legal, social, and political systems), from Greek ou "not" + topos "place" (see topos). Extended to any perfect place by 1610s. Commonly, but incorrectly, taken as from Greek eu- "good" (see eu-) an error reinforced by the introduction of dystopia.
例文
1. Sir Thomas More is remembered today as the author of Utopia .
現在もトーマス?ムーア氏は『ユートピア』の著者として銘記されている。
2.She was entering the masses with the phantom of a future Utopia .
彼女は未来のユートピアファンタジーで大衆を引きつけている。
3.His Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists.
彼のユートピアは空想的な連邦ではなく、すでに存在する連邦の事実上の改善である。dd>
4.We weren 't out to design a contemporary utopia .
現代ユートピアを設計するわけではありません。
5.Shangri-La was the name of James Hilton 's Tibetan Utopia .