Arcadia

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Arcadia

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From Latin Arcadia, from Ancient Greek Ἀρκαδία (Arkadía).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɑɹˈkeɪ.di.ə/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɑːˈkeɪ.dɪ.ə/
• Rhymes: -eɪdiə

Arcadia

1. A regional unit of Greece in the central and southeastern Peloponnese. Tripoli is the capital and main city with a population over 47,000.
2. A mountainous region of Ancient Greece, named for Greek mythological hero Arcas; legendary home of the rustic god of nature, Pan.
3. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A neighbourhood of Phoenix and Scottsdale, Maricopa County, Arizona.
   2. A city in Los Angeles County, California.
   3. A city, the county seat of DeSoto County, Florida
   4. An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Illinois.
   5. A town in Jackson Township, Hamilton County, Indiana.
   6. A minor city and township in Carroll County, Iowa.
   7. A minor city in Crawford County, Kansas.
   8. A town, the parish seat of Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
   9. Former name of Upperco, Maryland.
   10. A township in Lapeer County, Michigan.
   11. A township and census-designated place therein, in Manistee County, Michigan.
   12. A ghost town in Issaquena County, Mississippi.
   13. A minor city and inactive township in Iron County, Missouri.
   14. A township and village therein, in Valley County, Nebraska.
   15. A town in Wayne County, New York.
   16. An unincorporated community in Davidson County, North Carolina.
   17. A village in Hancock County, Ohio.
   18. A town in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.
   19. An unincorporated community in Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
   20. A village in the town of Richmond and town of Exeter, Washington County, Rhode Island.
   21. A census-designated place in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
   22. An unincorporated community in Sullivan County, Tennessee.
   23. A neighbourhood of Santa Fe, Galveston County, Texas.
   24. An unincorporated community in Shelby County, Texas.
   25. An unincorporated community in Botetourt County, Virginia.
   26. An unincorporated community in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
   27. An unincorporated community in Mason County, Washington.
   28. A city and town in Trempealeau County, Wisconsin.
4. A community next to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
5. A settlement in Tucumán province, Argentina.
6. A suburb of the city of Tshwane, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.
7. A suburb of Harare, Zimbabwe.
8. A quarter of Odesa, Ukraine.
9. A place in Australia:
   1. A suburb of Sydney in Hornsby Shire, New South Wales.
   2. A suburb on Magnetic Island, City of Townsville, Queensland.
   3. A town in the City of Greater Shepparton, Victoria.

Arcadia (plural Arcadias)

1. (figurative) An ideal region of rural and idyllic contentment; a pastoral utopia.
   • 2006, Kevin Markwell, Gay Tourism: Culture and Context:

     The homosexual visitors to these southern Mediterranean regions may have been influenced by an imagined geography circulated through classical understandings of homosexuality in their search for a kind of Arcadia where homosexual love and lust could be played out without fear of persecution.

• (ideal region): arcadia

• Shangri-La

• acardia

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

Arcadia

Wikipedia ^la

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἀρκαδία (Arkadía).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /arˈka.di.a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /arˈka.di.a/,

Arcadia f sg (genitive Arcadiae); first declension

1. Arcadia

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Arcadicus
• Arcadius

• Catalan: Arcàdia
• Italian: Arcadia
• Portuguese: Arcádia
• Spanish: Arcadia

• “Arcadia1”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Arcadia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Arcadia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Arcadia

Wikipedia ^es

Borrowed from Latin Arcadia, from Ancient Greek Ἀρκαδία (Arkadía).

• IPA^(key): /aɾˈkadja/
• Rhymes: -adja
• Syllabification: Ar‧ca‧dia

Arcadia f

1. Arcadia