A Himalayan country of lush mountains, Bhutan is known as the world's last Shangri-la.
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Shangri-la
//ˌʃæŋɡɹɪˈlɑː//
Synonyms for "shangri-la" (22 found)
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Related words (11)
Noun(4 words)
Proper Noun(1 words)
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Translations
20 translations across 16 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- شَانْغْرِيلَا noun (a place of complete bliss, delight, and peace)
- شَانْغْرِيلَا noun (a place of complete bliss, delight, and peace)
Burmese
1 entries- ရှန်ဂရီလာ noun (a place of complete bliss, delight, and peace)
Catalan
1 entries- Xangri-La noun (a place of complete bliss, delight, and peace)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 世外桃源 noun (a place of complete bliss, delight, and peace)
- 香格里拉 noun (a place of complete bliss, delight, and peace)
Esperanto
1 entries- Ŝangrilao noun (a place of complete bliss, delight, and peace)
Finnish
1 entries- Shangri-La noun (a place of complete bliss, delight, and peace)
French
1 entries- Shangri-La noun (a place of complete bliss, delight, and peace)
Hungarian
1 entries- Sangrila noun (a place of complete bliss, delight, and peace)
Japanese
1 entries- シャングリラ noun (a place of complete bliss, delight, and peace)
Korean
1 entries- 샹그릴라 noun (a place of complete bliss, delight, and peace)
Mongolian
1 entries- Шангри-Ла noun (a place of complete bliss, delight, and peace)
Polish
1 entries- Shangri-La noun (a place of complete bliss, delight, and peace)
Portuguese
2 entries- Xangri-lá noun (a place of complete bliss, delight, and peace)
- Xangrilá noun (a place of complete bliss, delight, and peace)
Russian
1 entries- Шангри-Ла́ noun (a place of complete bliss, delight, and peace)
Ukrainian
1 entries- Шанґрі-Ла noun (a place of complete bliss, delight, and peace)
Vietnamese
2 entries- chốn bồng lai noun (a place of complete bliss, delight, and peace)
- cõi bồng lai noun (a place of complete bliss, delight, and peace)
Sample sentences
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter delivered the keynote address at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore Saturday.
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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.
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The length of the journey gives a measure of the anachronism, which as [César] Vallejo said in one of his stories made the hill town a Shangri-La, forgotten by the rest of Peru.
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