di noun
1.
a mountainous region of ancient Greece, traditionally known for the contented pastoral innocence of its people.
2.
any real or imaginary place offering peace and simplicity.
3.
a city in SW California, E of Los Angeles.
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| 1. | a department of Greece, in the central Peloponnese. Capital: Tripolis. Pop: 91 326 (2001). Area: 4367 sq km (1686 sq miles) |
| 2. | 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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arcadia
any of the 18th-century Portuguese literary societies that attempted to revive poetry in that country by urging a return to classicism. They were modeled after the Academy of Arcadia, which had been established in Rome in 1690 as an arbiter of Italian literary taste
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