shadowland
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- noun
- /ˈʃædoʊˌlænd/
- Literature
:
mundo intermedio
- The Grimpond was a shadow in a shadowland.
Examples
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The artist painted a dreamlike scene that captured the essence of a shadowland, blending reality with fantasy.
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You become a ghost... trapped in a shadowland.
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That garbage island in the shadowland, wa-a-ay... way outside the Kingdom of God!
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She disappeared and returned to the shadowland.
Fiction book (1996) -
And sometimes, when the roads are no longer violet but only faintly lit strips in a shadowland, sometimes the lady keeps walking.
Academic text (2003) -
There's a show titled Shadowland created by the BBC that I'm praying will be aired in the USA soon.
Blog text (25) -
The lurking grief was banished to a shadowland of suppressed knowing.
Academic text (1999) -
In her novel, the protagonist found herself lost in a shadowland, where her fears and hopes intertwined in a mysterious haze.
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Childhood memories often float in a shadowland, a space where the boundaries between joy and sorrow become blurred.
Synonyms
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6.1
An imaginary place where everything is perfect and magical
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6.6
An imagined perfect place that exists only in dreams
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8.8
A made-up perfect place that exists only in dreams
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8.0
An imaginary land of dreams in stories and books
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8.6
An imaginary place where a person avoids real life and adult duties
An unclear or strange situation between two states
An imagined place someone believes is real
A place that exists only in the mind or in stories
Antonyms
How Mysterious
- Literature
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21
4.4
- Literature
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47
6.3
- Informal
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683
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Shadowland joins shadow ('unclear area' or 'dark shape') and land ('place'). So it feels like a 'place of half-light' between real and unreal, which is why we call a strange or mysterious state a 'shadowland'.