dreamland

See also: Dreamland

English

Etymology

From dream +‎ land.

Pronunciation

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Noun

dreamland (countable and uncountable, plural dreamlands)

1. An imaginary world experienced while dreaming.
   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros‎^[1], London: Jonathan Cape, page 1:

     “Child of earth,” she said, ”dost think we are here in dreamland?” ¶ He answered nothing, and she said, “This is no dream. […] ”

2. An imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic; a fantasy.
   • 28 March 2023, Graeme McGarry, “Scott McTominay earns place in history as Scotland stun Spain”, in The Herald‎^[2]:

     Those long legs of McTominay sensed where the ball would land, and carried him there first to crack a half-volley past Arrizabalaga and send Scotland into dreamland.

Synonyms

• (imaginary world experienced while dreaming): slumberland

Derived terms

• Dreamlander

Translations

imaginary world experienced while dreaming

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 夢鄉 / 梦乡 (zh) (mèngxiāng), 夢境 / 梦境 (zh) (mèngjìng), 睡鄉 / 睡乡 (zh) (shuìxiāng)

• Danish: drømmeland n
• Dutch: dromenland (nl) n
• Esperanto: revolando
• Finnish: unten maa
• French: pays de rêve, pays imaginaire (fr) m
• German: Traumland (de) n
• Hungarian: álomország (hu), álomvilág (hu)
• Korean: 꿈나라 (kkumnara)
• Latin: terra sonalis
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: drømmeland n

• Plautdietsch: Pooselaunt n
• Polish: kraina snów f
• Russian: ска́зочная страна́ f (skázočnaja straná), мир грёз m (mir grjoz)
• Spanish: país de los sueños m
• Turkish: düşler alemi

imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 幻境 (zh) (huànjìng)

• Danish: drømmeland n
• Finnish: unelmien maa
• French: monde imaginaire m, paradis (fr) m
• Korean: 몽환계 (monghwan'gye), 몽환경 (monghwan'gyeong)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: drømmeland n

• Plautdietsch: Pooselaunt n
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: düşler ülkesi

See also

• dreamscape
• dreamworld
• fantasy land
• cloudland
• neverland
• slumberland
• storyland

Anagrams

• ladderman, raddleman