Meaning

Alternative form of theme park..

Example Sentences

With a nature sweeter than this ill treatment merits, Gun manages to do the right thing, while taking the reader along for a splendid themepark ride.

Set to rise on the site where the Sands now stands is Sheldon Adelson's $2 billion Venetian, the latest in the wave of themepark casinos that began with the MGM Grand and the Luxor and now includes New York, New York, with its one-third-scale replicas of the Empire State Building and Statue of Liberty crisscrossed by a giant Coney Island roller coaster.

Anthropologist Monique Skidmore risked arrest to visit some of the dismal peri-urban townships – so-called “New Fields” – outside Rangoon where the military dictatorship forcibly relocated hundreds of thousands of urbanites whose former slums stood in the way of the tourist-themepark rebuilding of the city center. […] As the Third World middle classes increasingly bunker themselves in their suburban themeparks and electrified “security villages,” they lose moral and cultural insight into the urban badlands they have left behind.

Word Forms

• themeparks

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When Should You Use Theme park?

Use theme park when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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