Fairyland

Quick meaning: Fairyland is a noun meaning The land or abode of fairies.

Meaning

The land or abode of fairies.

More Meanings

1. Any place of great natural beauty, or having a magical atmosphere.
2. Synonym of dreamland (“ideal but unrealistic fantasy world”).
3. Having qualities ascribed to fairies and their realm; fanciful, delicate, surreal, or diminutive.

Example Sentences

The children built a fairyland cottage out of gingerbread, decorated with gumdrops and peppermint sticks.

Disconsolately they shot the water-chute, swung on the swings, ate fairy floss from the booth like nostalgic exiles from fairyland.

After months of darkness, mud and shuttered shops, what a delight to see gay streets filled with stores, all gorgeous in a Christmas fairyland of decoration.

These fairy-lands are only seen by very pious people or by those who are gifted with second sight, when in danger of their lives at sea, and they appear where at other times no land is to be found.

Word Forms

• fairylands
• fairy land
• fairy-land

Synonyms for fairyland

Depending on context, synonyms include dreamworld, dreamland, faerie, faery.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include faerie, faery, faeryland, fairydom, fairy, faerydom.

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