Utopia

UK: 'utopia': /juːˈtəʊpiə/; 'Utopia': /juːˈtəʊpɪə/

US: /juˈtoʊpiə/

US: (yo̅o̅ tō′pē ə)

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

U•to•pi•a /yuˈtoʊpiə/   n., pl. -pi•as. 

1. Literature, Philosophy [proper noun] an imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516) as enjoying perfection in law, politics, etc.
2. Philosophy [countable* usually: utopia] any ideal place or state.

U•to•pi•an, u•to•pi•an, adj., n. [countable]

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

U•to•pi•a  (yo̅o̅ tō′pē ə), n. 

1. Literature, Philosophy an imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516) as enjoying perfection in law, politics, etc.
2. Philosophy (usually l.c.) an ideal place or state.
3. Philosophy (usually l.c.) any visionary system of political or social perfection.

• Greek ou not + tóp(os) a place + -ia -y³
• Neo-Latin (1516)

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

Utopia / juːˈtəʊpɪə/ noun

1. (sometimes not capital) any real or imaginary society, place, state, etc, considered to be perfect or ideal

Etymology: 16th Century: from New Latin Utopia (coined by Sir Thomas More in 1516 as the title of his book that described an imaginary island representing the perfect society), literally: no place, from Greek ou not + topos a place