Xanadu
/ˈzanəduː
/noun (plural Xanadus)
An idealized place of great or idyllic magnificence and beauty: three architects and a planner combine to create a Xanadu...
- Coleridge created his Xanadu by locating his poems in the true, at many levels, and working towards a kind of exorcism and expiation.
- ‘This world he has created is a Xanadu, an Eden of sorts,’ the actor carries on.
- Everywhere you looked, serious, august news organizations were indulging very spoiled, very rich men who've built their own Xanadus the same way boys build forts out of sofa cushions and bed sheets.
Origin
Alteration of Shang-tu, the name of an ancient city in what is now the Inner Mongolia region of China, as portrayed in Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan (1816).