English

Noun

Shangri-La ‎(plural Shangri-Las)

1. A place of complete bliss, delight, and peace; paradise.
   • 1943, James Hilton, Lost Horizon , Macmillan Company of Canada, first occurrence, page 54:

     He spoke a kind of Chinese that I don't understand very well, but I think he said something about a lamasery near here, along the valley, I gathered, where we could get food and shelter. Shangri-La, he called it.

   • 1989, Grant Naylor, Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers

     He couldn't believe it when he'd discovered there actually was a town called Bedford Falls. It seemed like fans of the film had all collected there to live out their lives in a self-created 1940s American Shangri-la.

Translations

Synonyms

• utopia

References

• Shangri-La on Wikipedia.Wikipedia