fairyland

English

Adjective

fairyland (not comparable)

1. Having qualities ascribed to fairies and their realm; fanciful, delicate, surreal, or diminutive.

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

Noun

fairyland (plural fairylands)

1. The imaginary land or abode of fairies.
   • 2004, Algernon Blackwood, A Prisoner in Fairyland , Kessinger Publishing, page 174 [1]

     Not merely a foolish fairyland of make-believe and dragons and princesses imprisoned in animals, but a fairyland the whole world needs - the sympathy of sweet endeavour, love, gentleness and sacrifice for others.

Synonyms

• dreamworld

Translations

the imaginary land or abode of fairies

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 仙境 (cmn) (xiānjìng), 洞天 (cmn) (dòngtiān)

• French: royaume des fées (fr) m, pays des fées (fr) m
• German: Märchenland (de) n
• Hungarian: tündérország (hu), meseország (hu)
• Japanese: 仙境 (ja) (せんきょう, senkyō), フェアリーランド (ja) (fearīrando)

• Kyrgyz: сыйкырдуу өлкө (ky) (sıykırduu ölkö)
• Latin: terra divalis (la)
• Portuguese: mundo das fadas (pt) m
• Russian: сказочная страна (ru) (skázočnaja straná) f, волшебная страна (ru) (volšébnaja straná) f
• Volapük: feyalän (vo), märalän (vo)

References

• fairyland in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913