Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative capitalization of Arcadia
Examples
“* if installed as gem: exec on command line "arcadia”
“Labels: brownies comments: arcadia said ... been following this blog for a while, and am glad to see you're back! my experience with cheesecake-swirl brownies have been anything but laudable, but i think it might be time for another try ...”
“Many have argued that the radical figurative art of this period, marked by monumental forms, fluid line, ordered compositions and frequent evocations of a mythic, Mediterranean arcadia, can be aligned with the era's bourgeois conservatism, reactionary politics and, at its darkest, the rising specter of totalitarian regimes.”
“Sorry for them, that is, in an et in arcadia ego way: the memento mori reminder that so many of the rest of us can say – "I, too, was young once" – and that these nymphs will so soon be fat and disappointed and 50.”
“Juniper Hill, Flora Thompson's Lark Rise, was a place of bent backs and badly mended limbs rather than an arcadia for fresh-faced young rustics to sport in.”
“But it's not just about an easy capitulation to an imaginary arcadia of slow time and good manners.”
“The southern platform is a thickly landscaped arcadia; but the northern is left empty to form a open stage, with stone terraces providing seating around its perimeter, much like the arenas of ancient Athens.”
Robert Rodi: Mad Cow by Moonlight: Mucca Pazza Enchants Evanston
“Even the larger and more disturbing context, the myth of an antebellum arcadia, is reduced to a stage set for Scarlett's romantic machinations.”
“I knew them by their exits, their short wings and short tail flying away quickly through the trees, rebuking me for having broken into their arcadia, for catching them at their bath in a woodland puddle like Diana, and once trying the tarmac of the road, stepping like firewalkers over hot coals.”
“His sphinx is a statue, his hind of arcadia is your garden variety moose, as his Cerberus is a urinating hiding mafioso and his three Rhodesian ridgebacks.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘arcadia’.
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Places In Utah
tooele, rainbow bridge, duchene, bountiful, american fork, deseret, this is the place, temple square, orem, provo, west jordan, great salt lake and 246 more...
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Before and After the Fall
Arcadia to Apocalypse
prelapsarian, arcadian, armageddon, paradise lost, apocalypse, eden, edenic, golden age, end of the world, garden of eden, arcadia, antediluvian and 6 more...
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bkerr's Words
wyrd, absinthe, homunculus, zorkmid, informon, decider, diachronic, frak, hwæt, feldercarb, yawp, dogfooding and 540 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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inkhorn's Words
inkhorn, aplomb, apotheosis, asinine, avatar, bombastic, boorish, bromide, bucolic, cagey, canvass, digress and 991 more...
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If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-...
Words that have been used as baby names, including virtue names, nature names, place names, etc.
The title is an actual name given to a Puritan boy in the 17th century.faith, hope, grace, charity, chastity, prudence, patience, temperance, river, phoenix, stone, violet and 455 more...
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katiefallwest's Words
facetious, hallows, snarky, literati, cantankerous, gryphon, esoteric, fortuitous, impetus, ubiquitous, muggle, colour and 144 more...
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words found to be generally pleasing
alabaster, mahogany, camphor, coalesce, spire, portmanteau, gadabout, palaver, dolor, dour, dun, luminesce and 610 more...
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vorpal's Words
parabiosis, penumbra, defenestrate, portmanteau, sturm und drang, perspicacious, quixotic, copacetic, obfuscate, inveigle, shadenfreude, cloister and 349 more...
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states of mind: from absurdistan to zion
Countries, lands, cities that capture, or haunt, our dreams. Some of the places listed might be the names of actual localities, but here they are states of mind.
absurdistan, banana republic, utopia, mitteleuropa, new jerusalem, deseret, canaan, zion, ruritania, outer slobovia, lower slobovia, avalon and 126 more...
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ikepela's Words
quixotic, tempestuous, myriad, bubble, chevalier, archaic, soma, springs, strokes, snicker, lunacy, electricityscape and 110 more...
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Intellectual masturbation
descant, leitmotif, scrumptious, adroit, diatribe, sesquipedalian, tatterdemalion, succulent, carnal, chicane, reminisce, paraphernalia and 147 more...
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New and Thrilling
punaluan, ontic, arcadia, punctilio, nescience, misprision, episteme, hieratic, rebarbative, vaticinate, isopsephy, imbrication and 59 more...
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metaphorical places
canossa, waterloo, rubicon, eden, coventry, oz, gethsemane, calvary, serendip, the land of nod, between scylla an..., brigadoon and 77 more...
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personal faves
Some of my personal favorite words and sayings
technicolor yawn, visceral, somber, eat the leaf, experimental, pastoral, arcadia, pay the piper, blear, meat wagon, meat in the middle
Tweets
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ruzuzu Also see Arcadia. Jul 9, 2011
rolig Et in Arcadia ego. – "Even in Arcadia am I."
– traditional Latin saying, a memento mori, used as the inscription on a tombstone in two paintings by Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665). Sep 3, 2008