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trip to Xanadu

trip to Xanadu

1 9.9
A journey to a perfect, beautiful place in your dreams
  • noun
  • Literature
translation icon : viaje a Xanadú
  • She described her week at the resort as a trip to Xanadu.

Examples

  • I dream of a trip to Xanadu one day.

  • Winning the lottery let him take a trip to Xanadu he had always dreamed of.

  • After months of hard work, their cruise felt like a trip to Xanadu.

  • Have you ever planned a trip to Xanadu?

  • After saving for years, they finally took a trip to Xanadu, enjoying the luxurious beaches and stunning views.

  • The author described the protagonist's dream as a trip to Xanadu, where everything was beautiful and perfect.

  • For their anniversary, they planned a trip to Xanadu, a mythical paradise filled with opulence and charm.

Synonyms

tour
vstrip to Xanadu
819 1.0

A trip visiting several places and returning to the start, usually for work or pleasure

is a single imagined luxury destination rather than a multi-place itinerary
getaway
vstrip to Xanadu
52 3.0

A short trip to relax and leave daily routine

is imagined and idealized rather than a brief real escape
pleasure trip
vstrip to Xanadu
1 3.0

A journey taken to enjoy yourself rather than for work

is imagined and idealized focused on luxury and fantasy rather than ordinary trips
magical journey
vstrip to Xanadu
1 4.6

An adventure in a wonderful world with things that are not real

is an imagined luxurious escape focused on beauty and leisure

How Fantastical

trip to Xanadu
  • Literature
1 9.9
vacationland
  • US
1 3.5
vacation
  • US
∞ 1.0
getaway
52 3.0
day out
  • UK
21 1.8

Surface Forms

trip to Xanadu singular
trips to Xanadu plural

Morphology

trip + to + Xanadu

The structure 'trip to [place]' is compositional and a B1 learner who knows 'trip' and 'to' will understand this refers to a journey to a place. However, 'Xanadu' is a literary/cultural proper name whose connotations of an imaginary, idealized place of luxury are not derivable from its constituents and require prior cultural knowledge, so the full idiomatic sense is not fully predictable.

Etymology

The phrase trip to Xanadu comes from an old poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, where Xanadu is a rich, magical palace and garden. So calling a holiday a trip to Xanadu gives the image of a 'dream holiday in a very beautiful, very fancy place'.