different between canopy vs utopia

English

Etymology

From Middle English canape, canope, from Latin c?n?p?um (“curtain”) (ultimately from Ancient Greek ????????? (k?n?peîon)), through Medieval Latin canopeum, or possibly Old French conope, conopé (compare modern French canapé). Doublet of canapé and conopeum.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kæ.n?.pi/

Noun

canopy (plural canopies)

1. A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.

   • golden canopies and beds of state
2. Any overhanging or projecting roof structure, typically over entrances or doors.
3. The zone of the highest foliage and branches of a forest.
4. In an airplane, the transparent cockpit cover.
5. In a parachute, the cloth that fills with air and thus limits the falling speed.

Descendants

• ? French: canopée (calque)
• ? Spanish: canopy

Translations

Verb

canopy (third-person singular simple present canopies, present participle canopying, simple past and past participle canopied)

1. (transitive) To cover with or as if with a canopy.
   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act I, Scene 1,^[1]

     Away before me to sweet beds of flowers:

     Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers.

   • 1634, John Milton, Comus, lines 543-5,^[2]

     I sat me down to watch upon a bank

     With ivy canopied, and interwove

     With flaunting honeysuckle […]

   • 1818, Mary Shelley, Franklenstein, Chapter 11,^[3]

     I began also to observe, with greater accuracy, the forms that surrounded me, and to perceive the boundaries of the radiant roof of light which canopied me.

   • 1850, The Madras Journal of Literature and Science, Vol. XVI, No. 38, Vepery: J.P. Bantleman, p. 366,^[4]

     The walls of the vestibule and passage passing round the sanctuary, are covered with compartments holding high reliefs of Buddha seated on a lotus, the stem of which is grasped by two figures wearing wigs and tiaras, canopied by snakes; […]

2. (intransitive) To go through the canopy of a forest on a zipline.
   • 2013, Tara Morris, “Canopying In Rio Claro,” colombiareports.com, 11 March, 2013,^[5]

     If you’re looking for a little adventure in Colombia, look no further than canopying through Rio Claro’s lush, secluded jungle, located just five hours bus ride from either Medellin or Bogota.

See also

• canopied
• canopy bed

Spanish

Noun

canopy m (uncountable)

1. (Caribbean) zipline (activity)

English

Etymology

From New Latin ?topia, the name of a fictional island possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system in the book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More. Coined from Ancient Greek ?? (ou, “not”) + ????? (tópos, “place, region”) + -?? (-ía). Compare English topos and -ia.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ju??t??.pi.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ju?to?.pi.?/

Noun

utopia (countable and uncountable, plural utopia or utopias)

1. A world in which everything and everyone works in perfect harmony.

Antonyms

• dystopia
• unutopia

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• heaven
• paradise

References

Catalan

Noun

utopia f (plural utopies)

1. utopia

Derived terms

• utòpic

Finnish

(index u)

Etymology

From New Latin Utopia, the name of a fictional island, possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system in the book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More. Coined from Ancient Greek ?? (ou, “not, no”) + ????? (tópos, “place, region”).

Noun

utopia

1. utopia

Declension

Anagrams

• poutia, toipua

Italian

Etymology

From New Latin Utopia, the name of a fictional island, possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system in the book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More. Coined from Ancient Greek ?? (ou, “not, no”) + ????? (tópos, “place, region”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /u.to?pi.a/, [ut?o?pi?ä], (in fast speech) [ut?o?piä?]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: u?to?pìa

Noun

utopia f (plural utopie)

1. utopia

   Antonym: distopia

Derived terms

• utopico
• utopista

Related terms

• utopistico

References

• utopia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /u?t?.p?a/

Noun

utopia f

1. utopia

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) utopijny
• (adverb) utopijnie
• (nouns) utopijno??, utopista, utopistka

Further reading

• utopia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From New Latin Utopia, the name of a fictional island, possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system in the book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More. Coined from Ancient Greek ?? (ou, “not, no”) + ????? (tópos, “place, region”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: u?to?pi?a

Noun

utopia f (plural utopias)

1. utopia