Shangri-la
noun
Shan·gri-la ˌshaŋ-gri-ˈlä 
1
: a remote beautiful imaginary place where life approaches perfection : utopia
2
: a remote usually idyllic hideaway
Synonyms
- Camelot
- Cockaigne
- Eden
- Elysium
- empyrean
- fantasyland
- heaven
- lotusland
- never-never land
- New Jerusalem
- nirvana
- paradise
- promised land
- utopia
- Zion
- Sion
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Word History
Etymology
Shangri-La, imaginary land depicted in the novel Lost Horizon (1933) by James Hilton
First Known Use
1937, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Shangri-las
noun
as in paradises
an often imaginary place or state of utter perfection and happiness a dreamer who spent much of his life roaming the world in search of his personal Shangri-la Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- paradises
- utopias
- nirvanas
- heavens
- wonderlands
- Garden of Edens
- Sions
- Edens
- fairylands
- fantasylands
- promised lands
- arcadias
- blisses
- empyreans
- joys
- lotuslands
- Camelots
- dreamlands
- Cockaignes
- Elysia
- Elysiums
- never-never lands
- New Jerusalems
- Zions
- dreamworlds
- euphorias
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- dystopias
- hells
- anti-utopias
- fool's paradises