Arcadian
pronunciation
How to pronounce Arcadian in British English:
UK [ɑ:ˈkeɪdiən]
How to pronounce Arcadian in American English:
US [ɑrˈkeɪdiən]
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- Adjective:
- used of idealized country life
Word Origin
- Arcadian
- "ideally rustic or rural; an idealized rustic," 1580s, from Greek Arkadia, district in the Peloponnesus, taken by poets as an ideal region of rural felicity, traditionally from Arkas (genitive Arkadas), son of Zeus, name of the founder and first ruler of Arcadia.
Example
- 1. A country life of arcadian contentment .
- 2. Scenes from the 17th century landscape paintings were replicated as arcadian scenes .
- 3. With the interest of the wealthy in 17th century , landscape paintings the romantic notion of the arcadian ideal was sought in garden design .
- 4. The first is that the things you like to do are cheap , so you won 't have to earn a lot to support your arcadian existence on the side .
- 5. That helps to explain paganism 's appeal to characters as diverse as the poet percy bysshe shelley ( who was rumoured to keep an altar to pan , a priapic pre-christian fertility deity ) and kenneth grahame , the author of " the wind in the willows " , an arcadian children 's fantasy .