dreamland

From dream +‎ -land.

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dreamland (countable and uncountable, plural dreamlands)

1. An imaginary world experienced while dreaming.
   • 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 1:

     “Child of earth,” she said, ”dost think we are here in dreamland?” ¶ He answered nothing, and she said, “This is no dream. […] ”

2. An imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic; a fantasy.
   • 28 March 2023, Graeme McGarry, “Scott McTominay earns place in history as Scotland stun Spain”, in The Herald‎^[1]:

     Those long legs of McTominay sensed where the ball would land, and carried him there first to crack a half-volley past Arrizabalaga and send Scotland into dreamland.

• (imaginary world experienced while dreaming): slumberland

• dreamscape
• dreamworld
• fantasy land
• cloudland
• neverland
• slumberland
• storyland

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