English to afrikaans meaning of

arcadia

Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "Arcadia" verwys na 'n streek of 'n idilliese plek wat as 'n utopie, 'n paradys of 'n plek van landelike vrede en eenvoud beskou word. Dit kan ook verwys na 'n poëtiese of artistieke voorstelling van so 'n plek. In die Griekse mitologie was Arcadia 'n bergagtige streek in die sentrale Peloponnesos bekend vir sy natuurlike skoonheid en pastorale tonele.

Sentence Examples

  1. When they reached him master and man mounted once more, and without going back to bid farewell to the mock or imitation Arcadia, and more in humiliation than contentment, they continued their journey.
  2. In a village some two leagues from this, where there are many people of quality and rich gentlefolk, it was agreed upon by a number of friends and relations to come with their wives, sons and daughters, neighbours, friends and kinsmen, and make holiday in this spot, which is one of the pleasantest in the whole neighbourhood, setting up a new pastoral Arcadia among ourselves, we maidens dressing ourselves as shepherdesses and the youths as shepherds.
  3. He spun Llamrei sharply to the right, and they galloped down the less-trafficked Arcadia Street.
  4. In Arcadia, when I was there, I did not see any hammering stone.
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