| word | arcadia |
|---|---|
| definition | A region or setting of rural pleasure and peacefulness. |
| eg_sentence | The Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania are a vacationer's arcadia. |
| explanation | Arcadia, a beautiful rural area in Greece, became the favorite setting for poems about ideal innocence unaffected by the passions of the larger world, beginning with the works of the Roman poet Virgil. There, shepherds play their pipes and sigh with longing for flirtatious nymphs; shepherdesses sing to their flocks; and goat-footed nature gods play in the fields and woods. Today, city dwellers who hope to retire to a country house often indulge in arcadian fantasies about what rural life will be like. |
| IPA | ɑrˈkeɪdiə |
Tags: mwvb::unit:7, mwvb::unit:7:word, mwvb::word, mwvb::word-cloze, mwvb::word-reverse, obsidian_to_anki
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