Shangri-la

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A place or land of complete bliss, delight, and peace, especially one seen as an escape from ordinary life; a paradise.

   “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. La is Tibetan for mountain-pass. He was most emphatic that we should go there.”

2. isim An opulent building or resort that provides entertainment or luxurious living.

   “Well-known architects of the day, like Willis Polk, Albert Farr and Julia Morgan, designed some of the early mansions. Gordon Blanding, millionaire patron of the arts, bought the island's southern tip and built a Shangri La for his San Francisco friends.”

3. özel isim Former name of Camp David.
4. isim Alternative letter-case form of Shangri-La.

   “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.”