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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Utopia \U*to"pi*a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. not + ? a place.]
     [1913 Webster]
     1. An imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a
        work called Utopia, as enjoying the greatest perfection in
        politics, laws, and the like. See {Utopia}, in the
        Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.


        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Hence, any place or state of ideal perfection.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Utopia
       n 1: a book by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect
            society on an imaginary island
       2: ideally perfect state; especially in its social and
          political and moral aspects [ant: {dystopia}]
       3: a work of fiction describing a utopia
       4: an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal [syn: {Zion},
           {Sion}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "utopia":
     Agapemone, Arcadia, Big Rock-Candy Mountain, Canaan,
     Cloudcuckooland, Cockaigne, Eden, Eldorado, Erewhon,
     Garden of Eden, Goshen, Happy Valley, Land of Youth, Laputa,
     Never-Never-land, Neverland, New Atlantis, Pandemonium, Quivira,
     Saturnia regna, Saturnian age, Shangri-la, Utopia, Zion,
     age of Aquarius, airy hope, arcadia, bubble, chimera, cloudland,
     dream, dreamland, dystopia, era of prosperity, faerie,
     fair weather, fairyland, golden age, golden dream, golden era,
     golden time, good times, halcyon days, heaven, heyday, kakotopia,
     kingdom come, land of dreams, land of enchantment, land of faerie,
     land of plenty, land of promise, lotus land, millennium,
     never-never, palmy days, paradise, pipe dream, piping times,
     promised land, prosperity, quixotic ideal, reign of Saturn,
     rosy era, sunshine, unreal hope, wonderland
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  UTOPIA
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From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Utopia, TX
    Zip code(s): 78884

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Utopia, FL -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Florida
     Population (2000):    714
     Housing Units (2000): 279
     Land area (2000):     0.306849 sq. miles (0.794734 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    0.306849 sq. miles (0.794734 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            73442
     Located within:       Florida (FL), FIPS 12
     Location:             25.988719 N, 80.203268 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):    
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Utopia, FL
      Utopia
  

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Utopia, TX -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Texas
     Population (2000):    241
     Housing Units (2000): 127
     Land area (2000):     2.952302 sq. miles (7.646428 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    2.952302 sq. miles (7.646428 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            74576
     Located within:       Texas (TX), FIPS 48
     Location:             29.616402 N, 99.526623 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     78884
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Utopia, TX
      Utopia
  

















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