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ARCADIAN

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 I. (noun) 

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)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic

Example:

rustic tranquility

Synonyms:

arcadian; bucolic; pastoral

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

rural (living in or characteristic of farming or country life)

Derivation:

Arcadian (an inhabitant of Arcadia)

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