Definitions
WordNet 3.0
- n. any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
Examples
“Jean Cazals for The Wall Street Journal And at La Bauhinia, pastry chef François Perret offers traditional treats such as scones and finger sandwiches, as well as seasonal collections of cupcakes, which for the winter include caramel and black sesame, and chocolate and yuzu www.shangri-la.com .”
“La Bauhinia at the Shangri-La Hotel, 10 Avenue d'Iéna, 16th arrondissement; 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. daily; from €35 per person; +33 01 5367 1991; www.shangri-la.com .”
“Shangri-La's Boracay Resort & Spa, Philippines; Web: www. shangri-la.com”
“Traders Hotel (223 Sule Pagoda Rd.; 95-1-242-828; www. shangri-la.com), starting at about $90, is in a charmless high-risee — but good value and location.”
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“Also covered are the stern classics like Monticello's tea room and the ebullient odes to prettiness, like Frances and Rodney Smith's New Orleans shangri-la by decorator Nicky Haslam.”
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“And at the end of it, I want a door to open up in my living room, and a beautiful elf girl comes out of it and asks me to be her best friend, and then we fly away to shangri-la and eat strawberries there, and have lots of sexy-time.”
“I'm talking about a normal-person type rental, not some $650 a week tourist shangri-la.”
“Njuguna is based in the capital city of Mbabane, a shangri-la surrounded by mountains and valleys covered in a green carpet of vegetation.”
“By describing my little shangri-la I'd hoped to stimulate some interest & some replies from a few interesting like-minded folks.”
“Cebu Mactan Resort & Spa www. shangri-la.com We flew from Iloilo to Cebu with Cebu Pacific www. cebupacificair.com Royalty Free Music Welcome to the Show by Kevin MacLeod www. incompetech.com”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shangri-la’.
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phony places
erewhon, bezerkistan, etchisketchistan, telmar, xanadu, atlantis, utopia, shangri-la, uqbar, lemuria, syldavia, borduria and 2 more...
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Metaphorical locations
Fictional places that, somehow, everyone has heard of anyway.
Real places that have taken on the veneer of myth.
Anywhere that's really nowhere.Bumfuck, Idaho, Timbuktu, Dullsville, Anytown, USA, Nowheresville, The Boondocks, The Boonies, Skid Row, Main Street, the wrong side of..., cloudcuckooland, utopia and 45 more...
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Pursue bliss
Words for those who believe everyday should be your day in the sun. Follow your bliss!
Bon vivant, frabjous, Joseph Campbell, bel esprit, esthete, elegantiarum, grammaticaster, jouissance, surplus-jouissance, elysian, thaumazein, mirabile dictu and 61 more...
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slackagogo's Words
agelast, aggiornamento, zaftig, wowserism, vox barbara, verbigeration, tchotchke, tautology, sycophant, spoonerism, solipsism, sobriquet and 288 more...
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imogen's Words
coagitate, cloche, harum-scarum, foxglove, cryptolect, cant, roux, angora, duff, ulysse, schadenfreude, pepperpot and 315 more...
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A Long, Strange Trip
You'll definitely need a map. Inspired by Son of Groucho's comment on Islets of Langerhans.
slough of despond, pit of despair, den of iniquity, islets of langerhans, hippocampus, boulevard of brok..., canals of hering, hesselbach's tria..., crypts of lieberkühn, angle of louis, circle of willis, traube's space and 102 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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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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bluemartian's Words
spruiker, adytum, ruminate, exedra, moonglade, spindrift, syzygy, glissade, skysill, pellucid, aquarelle, tatterdemalion and 108 more...
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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S is for Sweater Puppy
My S Words
secret agent, sweater puppy, skivvies, soda jerk, surly, space madness, sad sack, sadsack, scoundrel, scrabble, shaken teddy bear..., saucy and 181 more...
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rosemilk's favourites
skullduggery, azure, topaz, onyx, lollygag, porcelain, darling, precious, pennyroyal, automaton, bejewelled, rococo and 69 more...
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Calgon, take me away!
To a magical fantasyland
hibernia, caledonia, atlantis, gilead, avalon, mag mell, shangri-la, brigadoon, annwn, tír na nÓg, lemuria, hy brasil and 1 more...
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Never been there
Mythical lands
cockaigne, schlaraffenland, utopia, big rock candy mo..., el dorado, atlantis, lemuria, borduria, san theodoros, freedonia, glubbdubdrib:, balnibarbi: and 23 more...
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legend
hansel, gretel, ondine, kelpie, boobrie, thumbelina, däumelinchen, moby dick, kraken, rattenfänger, tři oříšky, bruse and 7 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...
Tweets
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whichbe An extension and adaptation of the Fountain of Youth-narratives is the idea that a particular place, rather than a substance, carries what is needed to attain extreme age. It is not enough to take a potion from a bottle in Merry Olde England; a person seeking extreme longevity instead needs to move to "Shangri-La." (Wikipedia) May 22, 2008