Futurama
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˌfjuːt͡ʃəˈɹɑːmə/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Futurama is a noun meaning A palpable depiction of a (usually sensational) vision of the future.
Meaning
A palpable depiction of a (usually sensational) vision of the future.
Example Sentences
The book of Revelation, which describes [John’s glimpse of eternity], has to be the greatest futurama of all time.
Today we are apt to think of a fair as a mileless potpourri of trylons and flood-lighted futuramas, but in the yesterdays of our greatgrandfathers, a fair meant a cattle show.
The great New York World’s Fair of my childhood, erected on top of the garbage dumps that had filled the swamps of old, making marvelous futuramas out of the midden of the present.
With its emphasis on technology, its ebullient optimism, and boundless claims for design’s responsibility and power, MC is a cross between a world’s fair, a futurama, and a technology expo.
Word Forms
- futuramas
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include foreglimpse, smell-o-vision, envisioning, vista, visioning, pie in the sky.
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