ARCADIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Arcadia mean? 

• ARCADIA (noun)
  The noun ARCADIA has 1 sense:

1. a department of Greece in the central Peloponnese

  Familiarity information: ARCADIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARCADIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A department of Greece in the central Peloponnese

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (members of "Arcadia"):

Arcadian (an inhabitant of Arcadia)

Holonyms ("Arcadia" is a part of...):

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)

 Context examples 

A large portion of a region called Arcadia Planitia is the most tempting target in the northern hemisphere.

(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)

You still smoke the Arcadia mixture of your bachelor days then!

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)