Disneyland
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdɪzniːˌlænd/
Proper noun
Disneyland
- The archetypical theme park, located in Anaheim, California. Other Disneyland theme parks exist in other cities such as Chessy (Seine-et-Marne, France), Tokyo, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.
Gallery
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Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
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Disneyland in Tokyo, Japan.
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Disneyland in Shanghai, China.
Translations
Disneyland, theme park
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See also
Derived terms
Noun
Disneyland (plural Disneylands)
- (informal, often derogatory) A place resembling the Disneyland theme park, often typified by a corporately-designed saccharine cheerfulness.
- 1979, Myron Matlaw, editor, American popular entertainment:
- With its talking statuary, its enormous and elaborate monuments and museums, and its variety of daily shows, it has become a Disneyland of the dead...
- 1988 August 29, “The Last Temptation of Christ”, in New York Magazine, volume 21, number 34:
- Certainly anyone devoted to maintaining Christ as a lacquered benevolent spirit in a Disneyland of happiness is not going to like this movie.
- 2007, Valerie Easton, A pattern garden: the essential elements of garden making:
- This approach can lead to a Disneyland of a garden that busily vies for attention with the view, bringing out the best in neither.
- 2019 May 26, Dan Cohen, “The Books of College Libraries Are Turning Into Wallpaper”, in The Atlantic[1], archived from the original on 9 July 2019:
- But there is another future that these statistics and our nostalgic reaction to them might produce: the research library as a Disneyland of books, with banker’s lamps and never-cracked spines providing the suggestion of, but not the true interaction with, knowledge old and new.
Anagrams
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English Disneyland.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdis.nɛj.lant/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -isnɛjlant
- Syllabification: Dis‧ney‧land
Proper noun
Disneyland m inan
- Disneyland (archetypical theme park, located in Anaheim, California; other Disneyland theme parks exist in other cities such as Chessy (Seine-et-Marne, France), Tokyo, Shanghai, and Hong Kong)
Declension
Declension of Disneyland
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Disneyland | Disneylandy |
| genitive | Disneylandu | Disneylandów |
| dative | Disneylandowi | Disneylandom |
| accusative | Disneyland | Disneylandy |
| instrumental | Disneylandem | Disneylandami |
| locative | Disneylandzie | Disneylandach |
| vocative | Disneylandzie | Disneylandy |
Related terms
adjectives
nouns
Further reading
- Disneyland in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Disneyland in PWN's encyclopedia