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Arcadian   /ˌɑrkˈeɪdiən/   Listen
Arcadian

noun
1.
An inhabitant of Arcadia.
adjective
1.
(used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic.  Synonyms: bucolic, pastoral.  "A pleasant bucolic scene" , "Charming in its pastoral setting" , "Rustic tranquility"






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"Arcadian" Quotes from Famous Books



... "An unmannerly, Arcadian state of affairs. I am glad you like it. Perhaps it's because you were intelligent enough to perceive that I was not in love with you in ...
— The Arrow of Gold - a story between two notes • Joseph Conrad

... from here. I can see the whitewashed walls of some cottages and a kind of corner of the church. How jolly it all looks. It looks so—I don't know what the word is—so sensible. Don't fancy I'm under any illusions about Arcadian virtue and the innocent villagers. Men make beasts of themselves there with drink, but they don't deliberately make devils of themselves with mere talking. They kill wild animals in the wild woods, but they don't kill cats to the God of Victory. They don't——" He ...
— The Ball and The Cross • G.K. Chesterton

... for the position, I presume," Lady Delahaye remarked drily. "What a delightful arrangement! A sort of co-operative household. Quite Arcadian, I am sure, and so truly philanthropic. You have changed a good deal during the last few years, Mr. Arnold Greatson, to be able to stand there and make such ...
— The Master Mummer • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... cannot be enjoyed by those who overwork the brain, or admit the sure wear and tear of the passions. The creature I had just seen gave me the notion of youth in the golden age of the poets,—the youth of the careless Arcadian, before nymph or shepherdess had vexed his heart with ...
— A Strange Story, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... household lares, after so harsh a translation to distant climates, found again a happy reinstatement in what had in fact been their primitive abodes; they found themselves settled in quiet sylvan scenes, rich in all the luxuries of life, and endowed with the perfect loveliness of Arcadian beauty. But from the hills of this favored land and even from the level grounds as they approach its western border, they still look out upon that fearful wilderness which once beheld a nation in agony—the utter extirpation of nearly half a million from amongst its numbers, ...
— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey


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