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Utopia
An imagined perfect society.
The Greek roots
οὐ
ou
not
τόπος
tópos
place
Literally: “no-place”
The story of the word
Coined by Thomas More from Greek for 'no-place', with a sly pun on eu-topos, 'good place'.
The same roots elsewhere
Other languages reached for exactly the same Greek pieces.
In a sentence
Their plan promised a utopia that never arrived.