fictitious place
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- noun
- /fɪkˈtɪʃəs pleɪs/
- In many fairy tales, the protagonist often visits a fictitious place filled with wonder and excitement.
Examples
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lt's a fictitious place.
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A fictitious place is imaginatively mapped by IBM in advertising its "IBM CIM Architecture," which allows a user to manage, store, communicate, and share information with suppliers and customers.
Academic text (1991) -
lt's a fictitious place.
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Narnia is a fictitious place where magical creatures and epic adventures come to life.
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The novel transports readers to a fictitious place where the rules of reality no longer apply.
Synonyms
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An imagined place in your mind with magic and strange creatures
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8.8
A made-up perfect place that exists only in dreams
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6.1
An imaginary place where everything is perfect and magical
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A place that exists only in stories or imagination
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A place that exists only in your mind, often in stories
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An imaginary place where a person avoids real life and adult duties
How Real
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a place that exists only in imagination' is directly and compositionally derived from 'fictitious' (not real) + 'place' (location). This adjective+noun pattern is a standard, cross-linguistically common construction, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Fictitious place comes from the idea that fictitious means 'made up' and place means a location; imagine a writer drawing a town that exists only on paper or in their head. So, fictitious place means a location that exists only in imagination or in stories.