"fairyland" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

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Etymology: From fairy + land. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|fairy|land}} fairy + land Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} fairyland (not comparable)
  1. Having qualities ascribed to fairies and their realm; fanciful, delicate, surreal, or diminutive. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Fictional locations
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: fairy land, fairy-land

Noun [English]

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Etymology: From fairy + land. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|fairy|land}} fairy + land Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} fairyland (countable and uncountable, plural fairylands)
  1. The imaginary land or abode of fairies. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (the imaginary land or abode of fairies): 仙境 (xiānjìng) (Chinese Mandarin), 洞天 (dòngtiān) (Chinese Mandarin), eventyrland [neuter] (Danish), satumaa (Finnish), royaume des fées [masculine] (French), pays des fées [masculine] (French), Märchenland [neuter] (German), परियों का देश (pariyõ kā deś) [masculine] (Hindi), tündérország (Hungarian), meseország (Hungarian), feolando (Ido), 仙境 (senkyō) (alt: せんきょう) (Japanese), 妖精の国 (yōsei no kuni) (Japanese), сыйкырдуу өлкө (sıykırduu ölkö) (Kyrgyz), terra divalis (Latin), keinderaan (Malay), eventyrland [neuter] (Norwegian), eventyrland [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), mundo das fadas [masculine] (Portuguese), ска́зочная страна́ (skázočnaja straná) [feminine] (Russian), волше́бная страна́ (volšébnaja straná) [feminine] (Russian), Elfame (Scots), Elphyne (Scots), fary (Scots), sagoland [neuter] (Swedish), masallar ülkesi (Turkish), periler ülkesi (Turkish), پرستان (paristān) [masculine] (Urdu), feyalän (Volapük), märalän (Volapük)
    Sense id: en-fairyland-en-noun-YpYG8G8p Disambiguation of 'the imaginary land or abode of fairies': 99 1
  2. Any place of great natural beauty, or having a magical atmosphere. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-fairyland-en-noun-srcyfMUA
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: dreamworld, fairy land, fairy-land Derived forms: fairylandish

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 46:",
          "text": "These fairy-lands are only seen by very pious people or by those who are gifted with second sight, when in danger of their lives at sea, and they appear where at other times no land is to be found.",
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        {
          "ref": "2004, Algernon Blackwood, A Prisoner in Fairyland, Kessinger Publishing, page 174:",
          "text": "Not merely a foolish fairyland of make-believe and dragons and princesses imprisoned in animals, but a fairyland the whole world needs - the sympathy of sweet endeavour, love, gentleness and sacrifice for others.",
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          "ref": "1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:",
          "text": "No one who had not observed that for a short distance reeds had taken the place of shrubs, could possibly have guessed the existence of such a stream or dreamed of the fairyland beyond. For a fairyland it was - the most wonderful that the imagination of man could conceive. The thick vegetation met overhead, interlacing into a natural pergola, and through this tunnel of verdure in a golden twilight flowed the green, pellucid river, beautiful in itself, but marvelous from the strange tints thrown by the vivid light from above filtered and tempered in its fall.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, A War Nurse's Diary: Sketches from a Belgian Field Hospital, page 63:",
          "text": "After months of darkness, mud and shuttered shops, what a delight to see gay streets filled with stores, all gorgeous in a Christmas fairyland of decoration.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "Any place of great natural beauty, or having a magical atmosphere."
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    {
      "word": "dreamworld"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xiānjìng",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "word": "仙境"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "dòngtiān",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "word": "洞天"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "eventyrland"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "word": "satumaa"
    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
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    },
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pays des fées"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Märchenland"
    },
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      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "pariyõ kā deś",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "परियों का देश"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "word": "tündérország"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "word": "meseország"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "word": "feolando"
    },
    {
      "alt": "せんきょう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "senkyō",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "word": "仙境"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "yōsei no kuni",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "word": "妖精の国"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "sıykırduu ölkö",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "word": "сыйкырдуу өлкө"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "word": "terra divalis"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "word": "keinderaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "eventyrland"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "eventyrland"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mundo das fadas"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "skázočnaja straná",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ска́зочная страна́"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "volšébnaja straná",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "волше́бная страна́"
    },
    {
      "code": "sco",
      "lang": "Scots",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "word": "Elfame"
    },
    {
      "code": "sco",
      "lang": "Scots",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "word": "Elphyne"
    },
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      "code": "sco",
      "lang": "Scots",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "word": "fary"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "sagoland"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "word": "masallar ülkesi"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "word": "periler ülkesi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "paristān",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "پرستان"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "word": "feyalän"
    },
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      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "the imaginary land or abode of fairies",
      "word": "märalän"
    }
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    "fairyland"
  ],
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}

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    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hindi translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Ido translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Kyrgyz translations",
    "Terms with Latin translations",
    "Terms with Malay translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
    "Terms with Norwegian translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Scots translations",
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    "Terms with Turkish translations",
    "Terms with Urdu translations",
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          "text": "The children built a fairyland cottage out of gingerbread, decorated with gumdrops and peppermint sticks.",
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        }
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}

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