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dreamworld en · NOUN

Etymology

From dream + world. Compare West Frisian dreamwrâld (“dreamworld”), Dutch droomwereld, dromenwereld (“dreamworld”), German Traumwelt (“dreamworld”), Danish drømmeverden (“dreamworld”), Swedish drömvärld (“dreamworld”).

Meanings

  1. An imaginary world, such as experienced while dreaming.
    • At midnight they left the air-conditioned dream-world and entered the oven of the street. 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 358:
  2. Synonym of dreamland (“ideal but unrealistic fantasy world”).

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Relateds

dreamland · fantasy land · cloudland · dreamscape · fairyland · neverland

Synonyms

dreamland

Translations (18)

ko 꿈나라 (an imaginary world) · es mundo de los sueños (an imaginary world) · fi unimaailma (an imaginary world) · tr düşler alemi (an imaginary world) · nn draumeverd (an imaginary world) · cmn 梦境 (an imaginary world) · la mundus imaginarius (an imaginary world) · nl droomwereld (an imaginary world) · de Traumwelt (an imaginary world) · la mundus sonialis (an imaginary world) · hu álomvilág (an imaginary world) · pl kraina marzeń (an imaginary world) · nn draumverd (an imaginary world) · nb drømmeverden (an imaginary world) · fi unten maa (an imaginary world) · da drømmeverden (an imaginary world) · sv drömvärld (an imaginary world) · fi haavemaailma (an imaginary world)