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Definition of Arcadian

1. Noun. An inhabitant of Arcadia.

2. Adjective. (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic. "Rustic tranquility"

Definition of Arcadian

1. a. Of or pertaining to Arcadia; pastoral; ideally rural; as, Arcadian simplicity or scenery.

Definition of Arcadian

1. Noun. An inhabitant of ancient Arcadia. ¹

2. Noun. An ideal rustic. ¹

3. Adjective. Pertaining to ancient Arcadia. ¹

4. Adjective. Ideally rustic. ¹

5. Noun. An inhabitant or a resident of Arcadia, (US), and its suburbs. ¹

6. Noun. A thing that originates from Arcadia, (US). ¹

7. Adjective. Pertaining to Arcadia (US). ¹

8. Adjective. Pertaining to an arcade. ¹

9. Adjective. Furnished with arcades. ¹

10. Adjective. Ideally rustic or pastoral. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Arcadian

1. one who lives in an arcadia [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arcadian

Arawn Arax Araxes Arbil Arbor Day Arbury Arbuthnotian Arbutus menziesii Arbutus unedo Arbëresh

Arbëreshë Albanian Arc de Triomphe Arca Arcadia Arcadian (current term) Arcadians Arcadic Arcado-Cypriot Arcady Arcanobacterium

Arcanobacterium haemolyticum Arcellidae Arceuthobium Arceuthobium pusillum Archaean Archaebacteria Archaeopteryx lithographica Archaeornithes Archaeozoic

Literary usage of Arcadian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation by George Grote (1862)
"Forty distinct Arcadian townships,2 from all sides of this centre, were persuaded to join the new community. Ten were from ' Thucyd. ii. 15. 'Erti! ..."

2. The History of Greece by William Mitford (1823)
"If, to relieve them, Olympia was left without an Arcadian force, the considerable acquisitions made, through the first successes in the war, ..."

3. Introduction to the Study of the Greek Dialects: Grammar, Selected by Carl Darling Buck (1910)
"From the latter part of the third century on, when the chief Arcadian cities belonged to the Achaean, and for a time to the ..."

4. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"WHAT DIM Arcadian PASTURES What dim Arcadian pastures Have I known That suddenly, out of nothing, A wind is blown, Lifting a veil and a darkness, ..."

5. Elizabethan Critical Essays by George Gregory Smith (1904)
"ABRAHAM FRAUNCE (THE Arcadian ... 1588 [Abraham Fraunce issued, in 1588, from the press of Thomas Orwin, The Arcadian ..."

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