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arcadia

3 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. arcadia (noun)
  2. Arcadia (geographical name)
  3. et in Arcadia ego (foreign term)

ar·ca·dia

noun, often capitalized \är-ˈkā-dē-ə\

Definition of ARCADIA

: a region or scene of simple pleasure and quiet
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Origin of ARCADIA

Arcadia, region of ancient Greece frequently chosen as background for pastoral poetry
First Known Use: circa 1890

Other Literature Terms

apophasis, bathos, bildungsroman, bowdlerize, caesura, coda, doggerel, euphemism, poesy, prosody

Rhymes with ARCADIA

Acadia, Arcadia

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