fairyland
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5.5
- noun
- /ˈfɛəriˌlænd/
- Literature
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país de hadas
- The garden was transformed into a fairyland with twinkling lights and colorful flowers.
- a winter fairyland
- map of fairyland
- make a fairyland
Examples
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♪ ♪ AMELIA: A fairyland of beauty lay below and about me, so lovely as to distract a pilot’s attention from the task at hand, that of herding a heavy plane out of that great upland saucer and over the mountains that make its rim.
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Welcome to Fairyland.
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Choose right and you go to Fairyland.
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- Yes, it must look like a fairyland!
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I wanna go back to fairyland.
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Bonnie, I'm going to take you on a long trip to fairyland.
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Isn't this room just like a fairyland?
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For Yuri, it was like being launched into a fairyland.
Fiction book (1999) -
As I photographed this fairyland in the setting sun, I really had the feeling I was visiting the Land of Oz.
Academic text (2001) -
Ice that collects everywhere and 200 inches of snow make winter a fairyland of dramatic images.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
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5.0
A place full of beauty and magic that feels like a dream
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4.4
An imagined place in your mind with magic and strange creatures
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9.9
A magical land where small magical creatures live
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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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8.0
An imaginary land of dreams in stories and books
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9.9
An imagined magical land where small humanlike beings live
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8.6
An imaginary place where a person avoids real life and adult duties
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6.9
A place that exists only in stories or imagination
An imagined place someone believes is real
A place that exists only in your mind, often in stories
How Imaginary
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fairyland combines fairy, an old word for 'magic' or a 'magical creature', and land, meaning 'country' or 'area'. So fairyland literally means a 'country of magic', which is why we use it for an imaginary, beautiful place.