See Also: septic(dictionary)
septic(medicine)
septic(dictionary)
septic wound(medicine)
shock, septic(medicine)
Bursitis, septic(health)
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Septic shock(health)
septic arthritis(encyclopedia)
septic tank(dictionary)

Utopia (iou) and septic (oh)


Utopia (iou)



Utopia noun. Also utopia. M16.
[mod. Latin = no-place (from Greek ou not + topos place: see -IA1), title of a book by Sir Thomas More (1477-1535).]
An imaginary or hypothetical place or state of things considered to be perfect; a condition of ideal (esp. social) perfection. M16.
G. B. Shaw In the imagination..England is a Utopia in which everything and everybody is 'free'. L. Starke A first tiny, faltering step on the road to our Green utopia.
b. An imaginary distant region or country. Now rare or obsolete. E17.
An impossibly ideal scheme, esp. for social improvement. M18.
Utopiast noun (rare) = UTOPIAN noun 2 M19.

septic (oh)



[Date: 1600-1700; Language: Latin; Origin: septicus, from Greek, from sepein; SEPSIS]
a wound or part of your body that is septic is infected with bacteria
::a cut that went septic