"dreamworld" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: dreamworlds [plural], dream-world [alternative], dream world [alternative]
Etymology: From dream + world. Compare West Frisian dreamwrâld (“dreamworld”), Dutch droomwereld, dromenwereld (“dreamworld”), German Traumwelt (“dreamworld”), Danish drømmeverden (“dreamworld”), Swedish drömvärld (“dreamworld”). Etymology templates: {{com|en|dream|world}} dream + world, {{cog|fy|dreamwrâld|t=dreamworld}} West Frisian dreamwrâld (“dreamworld”), {{cog|nl|droomwereld}} Dutch droomwereld, {{cog|de|Traumwelt|t=dreamworld}} German Traumwelt (“dreamworld”), {{cog|da|drømmeverden|t=dreamworld}} Danish drømmeverden (“dreamworld”), {{cog|sv|drömvärld|t=dreamworld}} Swedish drömvärld (“dreamworld”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} dreamworld (plural dreamworlds)
  1. An imaginary world, such as experienced while dreaming. Translations (an imaginary world): 梦境 (mèngjìng) (Chinese Mandarin), drømmeverden [common-gender] (Danish), droomwereld [masculine] (Dutch), unimaailma (Finnish), unten maa (Finnish), haavemaailma (Finnish), Traumwelt [feminine] (German), álomvilág (Hungarian), 꿈나라 (kkumnara) (Korean), mundus imaginarius (Latin), mundus sonialis (Latin), drømmeverden [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), draumeverd [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), draumverd [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), kraina marzeń [feminine] (Polish), mundo de los sueños [plural] (Spanish), drömvärld [common-gender] (Swedish), düşler alemi (Turkish)
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  2. Synonym of dreamland (“ideal but unrealistic fantasy world”). Synonyms: dreamland [synonym, synonym-of]
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: dreamland, dreamscape, fairyland, fantasy land, cloudland, neverland

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.