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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.

Built on the same root

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