DREAMLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dreamland mean? 

• DREAMLAND (noun)
  The noun DREAMLAND has 1 sense:

1. a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination

  Familiarity information: DREAMLAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DREAMLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

dreamland; dreamworld; never-never land

Hypernyms ("dreamland" is a kind of...):

fictitious place; imaginary place; mythical place (a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings)

 Context examples 

Your pleasures, by your own account, have been few; but I daresay you did exist in a kind of artist's dreamland while you blent and arranged these strange tints.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And there we were, the four of us, upon the dreamland, the lost world, of Maple White.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She had never been tormented by womanhood, and she had lived in a dreamland of Tennysonian poesy, dense even to the full significance of that delicate master's delicate allusions to the grossnesses that intrude upon the relations of queens and knights.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

With much labor we got our things up the steps, and then, looking back, took one last long survey of that strange land, soon I fear to be vulgarized, the prey of hunter and prospector, but to each of us a dreamland of glamour and romance, a land where we had dared much, suffered much, and learned much—OUR land, as we shall ever fondly call it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)