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ARCADIAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Arcadian mean?
• ARCADIAN (noun)
The noun ARCADIAN has 1 sense:
1. an inhabitant of Arcadia
Familiarity information: ARCADIAN used as a noun is very rare.
• ARCADIAN (adjective)
The adjective ARCADIAN has 1 sense:
1. (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic
Familiarity information: ARCADIAN used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An inhabitant of Arcadia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Arcadian" is a kind of...):
Greek; Hellene (a native or inhabitant of Greece)
Holonyms ("Arcadian" is a member of...):
Arcadia (a department of Greece in the central Peloponnese)
Derivation:
arcadian ((used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic
Synonyms:
Context example:
rustic tranquility
Similar:
rural (living in or characteristic of farming or country life)
Derivation:
Arcadian (an inhabitant of Arcadia)
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