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Shangri-La

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Shangri-La /ˌʃaŋgrɪˈlɑː/

▶noun an imaginary earthly paradise.

– origin the name of a Tibetan utopia in James Hilton's Lost Horizon (1933), from Shangri (an invented name) + Tibetan la ‘mountain pass’.

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