FAIRYLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fairyland mean? 

• FAIRYLAND (noun)
  The noun FAIRYLAND has 2 senses:

1. something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality)

2. the enchanted realm of fairies

  Familiarity information: FAIRYLAND used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAIRYLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

fairyland; fantasy world; phantasy world

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

fantasy; phantasy (imagination unrestricted by reality)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fairyland"):

paracosm (a prolonged fantasy world invented by children; can have a definite geography and language and history)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The enchanted realm of fairies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

faerie; faery; fairyland

Hypernyms ("fairyland" 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 

If you are the one giving the party, you will pull out all the stops to make your guests feel they’ve entered a fairyland of beauty.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"You have given me a glimpse of fairyland," Martin said on the ferry-boat.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

For a fairyland it was—the most wonderful that the imagination of man could conceive.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you live in the northern hemisphere and it snows where you will be, it will be like living in a dreamlike fairyland of brilliant white with cottages, trees, and mountaintops dusted with a thick layer of confectioner’s sugar.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Vivid orchids and wonderful colored lichens smoldered upon the swarthy tree-trunks and where a wandering shaft of light fell full upon the golden allamanda, the scarlet star-clusters of the tacsonia, or the rich deep blue of ipomaea, the effect was as a dream of fairyland.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)