"dreamland" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-dreamland.wav [US] Forms: dreamlands [plural]
Etymology: From dream + land. Etymology templates: {{com|en|dream|land}} dream + land Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} dreamland (countable and uncountable, plural dreamlands)
  1. An imaginary world experienced while dreaming. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Dreams Synonyms (imaginary world experienced while dreaming): slumberland Translations (imaginary world experienced while dreaming): 夢鄉 (Chinese Mandarin), 梦乡 (mèngxiāng) (Chinese Mandarin), 夢境 (Chinese Mandarin), 梦境 (mèngjìng) (Chinese Mandarin), 睡鄉 (Chinese Mandarin), 睡乡 (shuìxiāng) (Chinese Mandarin), drømmeland [neuter] (Danish), dromenland [neuter] (Dutch), revolando (Esperanto), unten maa (Finnish), pays de rêve (French), pays imaginaire [masculine] (French), Traumland [neuter] (German), álomország (Hungarian), álomvilág (Hungarian), 꿈나라 (kkumnara) (Korean), terra sonalis (Latin), drømmeland [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), Pooselaunt [neuter] (Plautdietsch), kraina snów [feminine] (Polish), ска́зочная страна́ (skázočnaja straná) [feminine] (Russian), мир грёз (mir grjoz) [masculine] (Russian), país de los sueños [masculine] (Spanish), düşler alemi (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-dreamland-en-noun-U6qig3bp Disambiguation of Dreams: 58 42 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 56 44 Disambiguation of 'imaginary world experienced while dreaming': 93 7 Disambiguation of 'imaginary world experienced while dreaming': 93 7
  2. An imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic; a fantasy. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Fictional locations Translations (imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic): 幻境 (huànjìng) (Chinese Mandarin), drømmeland [neuter] (Danish), unelmien maa (Finnish), monde imaginaire [masculine] (French), paradis [masculine] (French), 몽환계 (monghwan'gye) (Korean), 몽환경 (monghwan'gyeong) (Korean), drømmeland [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), Pooselaunt [neuter] (Plautdietsch), düşler ülkesi (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-dreamland-en-noun-tK4HgAh9 Disambiguation of Fictional locations: 32 68 Disambiguation of 'imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic': 9 91
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: dreamscape, dreamworld, fantasy land, cloudland, neverland, slumberland, storyland

Inflected forms

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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "monde imaginaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "paradis"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "monghwan'gye",
      "sense": "imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic",
      "word": "몽환계"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "monghwan'gyeong",
      "sense": "imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic",
      "word": "몽환경"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "drømmeland"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Pooselaunt"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic",
      "word": "düşler ülkesi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dreamland"
}

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