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Arcadia

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Ar·ca·di·a 1  (är-kd-)
1. also Ar·ca·dy (ärk-d) A region of ancient Greece in the Peloponnesus. Its inhabitants, relatively isolated from the rest of the known civilized world, proverbially lived a simple, pastoral life.
2. A city of southern California, a residential suburb of Los Angeles at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains. Population: 56,500.
Ar·ca·di·a 2 also ar·ca·di·a  (är-kd-)
n.
A region offering rural simplicity and contentment.
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Noun1.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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] -- Hesiod says she (Callisto) was the daughter of Lycaon and lived in Arcadia.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
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.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
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.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
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