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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A mountainous and picturesque district of Greece, in the heart of the Peloponnesus, whose people were distinguished for contentment and rural happiness.
- noun Fig.: Any region or scene of simple pleasure and untroubled quiet.
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- proper noun A district or a prefecture in the central and mid SE
Peloponnese that has a population of more than 110,000.Tripoli is the capital and a main city with a population over 22,000. - proper noun A mountainous region of ancient
Greece . - proper noun A city in California,
USA . - proper noun A city in Louisiana,
USA . - proper noun Used as a name for an ideal region of
rural andidyllic contentment .
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- noun a department of Greece in the central Peloponnese
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In 1958, the year after he arrived in Rome, Twombly painted a nearly colorless, luminous canvas with the word "Arcadia" scrawled amid a field of skittering marks in pencil and crayon.
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Having remained in this place [2] three days, anchored off the coast, we decided on account of the scarcity of ports to depart, always skirting the shore, which we baptized Arcadia on account of the beauty of the trees.
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ruzuzu commented on the word Arcadia
For a comment about the region in Greece, see Arcadian.
For a comment about the letters R, K, D, and N, see arcadian.
For a comment about the saying Et in Arcadia ego, see arcadia.
For an example of arcades ambo, see curculio.
For a play about mathematics, time, rice pudding, garden design, Byron, and a hermitage, see Arcadia by Tom Stoppard.
September 13, 2010