erewhon

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Definition of erewhon in English English dictionary

a book by the British writer Samuel Butler ,published in 1872. Erewhon was an imaginary land discovered by a traveller, and Butler used it for a satire on British hypocrisy and the way society thought about crime and religion. Many years later he wrote a second book, called Erewhon Revisited

a fictitious land described in a novel by Samuel Butler

Hyphenation

Er·e·whon