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Ar·ca·di·a¹

(är-kā′dē-ə) also Ar·ca·dy (är′kə-dē)

A region of ancient Greece in the Peloponnesus. Its relatively isolated inhabitants proverbially lived a simple, pastoral life.

Ar·ca·di·a²

also ar·ca·di·a (är-kā′dē-ə)

A region offering rural simplicity and contentment.

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Arcadia

(ɑːˈkeɪdɪə)

1. (Placename) a department of Greece, in the central Peloponnese. Capital: Tripolis. Pop: 91 326 (2001). Area: 4367 sq km (1686 sq miles)

2. (Placename) Also called (poetic): Arcady the traditional idealized rural setting of Greek and Roman bucolic poetry and later in the literature of the Renaissance

3. (Poetry) Also called (poetic): Arcady the traditional idealized rural setting of Greek and Roman bucolic poetry and later in the literature of the Renaissance

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Ar•ca•di•a

(ɑrˈkeɪ di ə)

n.

1. a mountainous region of ancient Greece in the central Peloponnesus: traditionally represented in literature as a place of pastoral innocence and contentment.

2. any real or imaginary place offering peace and simplicity.

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Arcadia - a department of Greece in the central Peloponnese

Ellas, Greece, Hellenic Republic - a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil

Arcadian - an inhabitant of Arcadia

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Arcadia

[ɑːˈkeɪdɪə] N → Arcadia f

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Arcadia

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Arcadia

[ɑːˈkeɪdɪə] n → Arcadia

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1: (2) The Great Bear.] -- Hesiod says she (Callisto) was the daughter of Lycaon and lived in Arcadia. She chose to occupy herself with wild-beasts in the mountains together with Artemis, and, when she was seduced by Zeus, continued some time undetected by the goddess, but afterwards, when she was already with child, was seen by her bathing and so discovered.

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Following our example, many more of Leandra's lovers have come to these rude mountains and adopted our mode of life, and they are so numerous that one would fancy the place had been turned into the pastoral Arcadia, so full is it of shepherds and sheep-folds; nor is there a spot in it where the name of the fair Leandra is not heard.

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Fortune had decreed to ennoble this little brook with a higher honour than any of those which wash the plains of Arcadia ever deserved.

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He may be a shepherd in Arcadia for aught he knows, he may be the first youth kissing the first maiden, he may be Eros himself, sipping the lips of Psyche--it is all one.

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In his fancy the Island seemed an unattainable Arcadia. He buttoned his thin coat against the chilling wind.

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We must now take leave of Arcadia, and those amiable people practising the rural virtues there, and travel back to London, to inquire what has become of Miss Amelia "We don't care a fig for her," writes some unknown correspondent with a pretty little handwriting and a pink seal to her note.

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And those that held Arcadia, under the high mountain of Cyllene, near the tomb of Aepytus, where the people fight hand to hand; the men of Pheneus also, and Orchomenus rich in flocks; of Rhipae, Stratie, and bleak Enispe; of Tegea and fair Mantinea; of Stymphelus and Parrhasia; of these King Agapenor son of Ancaeus was commander, and they had sixty ships.

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You still smoke the Arcadia mixture of your bachelor days then!

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In Arcadia, when I was there, I did not see any hammering stone.

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A man with sharp eyes read out the name on her bows: Arcadia. "What a beauti ful model of a ship!" murmured some of us.

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SIR Philip Green's Arcadia Group has revealed that interim chairman Jamie Drummond Smith has stepped down.

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