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wonderworld en · NOUN

Etymology

From wonder + world; compare the coincidentally equivalently formed Old English wundorworuld (“wonderful world”).

Meanings

1. A place full of delights or marvels.
   • What indeed, is every—the commonest phenomenon but a wonder and a mystery;—every flower a riddle; every blade of grass an open secret; every mite that glistens in the sunbeam a point from which the universe opens outward? This world is no less a mystery and a wonder-world than the world beyond, and were it not for our close familiarity with it, by which our sense is blunted we should at once perceive it to be no less so. 1864, The Spiritual Magazine, volumes 5-6, page 279:
   • Your child dives into the deep sea and meets a wonderworld of strange creatures! 1996 November 12, Weekly World News, volume 18, number 7, page 18:
   • When I finally took a trip to Marcoland, or to one outpost of his kingdom anyway, a wonderworld in Mayfair called Mirabelle, I found a fantasy of '50s posh, with neither wild attitude nor blood sausage in sight. 2003, Holly Hughes, Best Food Writing 2003, page 181:
   • In new suburban wonderworlds, psychic and social tensions challenged marital togetherness, prompting a new generation of muckrakers to expose the harried lives of affluent Americans. 1983, David Quentin Voigt, American Baseball: From Postwar Expansion to the Electronic Age:
   • I spent a lot of time at the Ballston Beach parking lot with him, blocking off large sections and flooding them with water from his house, making vast, swamp wonderworlds between the parked cars. 2007, Natalie Robins, Steven M. L. Aronson, Savage Grace, page 164:

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Synonyms

wonderland