name · noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
name
Meaning 1
The Area 51 military base in Nevada, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
An imaginary world experienced while dreaming.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dreamworld
Antonyms: none provided
3
noun
Meaning 3
An imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic; a fantasy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dreamworld, fairyland
Antonyms: none provided
4
noun
Meaning 4
a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: never-never land, dreamworld
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: imaginary place, mythical place, fictitious place
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dhrewgh- Proto-West Germanic *draum Old English drēam Middle English drem English dream Proto-Indo-European *lendh- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *landą Proto-West Germanic *land Old English land Middle English lond English land English -land English dreamland From dream + -land.
Across languages
Translations
32 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Chinese Mandarin:
夢鄉 /梦乡
(mèngxiāng)
— imaginary world experienced while dreaming
Chinese Mandarin:
夢境 /梦境
(mèngjìng)
— imaginary world experienced while dreaming
Chinese Mandarin:
睡鄉 /睡乡
(shuìxiāng)
— imaginary world experienced while dreaming
Danish:
drømmeland
— imaginary world experienced while dreaming
Dutch:
dromenland
— imaginary world experienced while dreaming
Esperanto:
revolando
— imaginary world experienced while dreaming
Finnish:
unten maa
— imaginary world experienced while dreaming
French:
pays de rêve
— imaginary world experienced while dreaming
French:
pays imaginaire
— imaginary world experienced while dreaming
German:
Traumland
— imaginary world experienced while dreaming
Hungarian:
álomország
— imaginary world experienced while dreaming
Hungarian:
álomvilág
— imaginary world experienced while dreaming
Korean:
꿈나라
(kkumnara)
— imaginary world experienced while dreaming
Latin:
terra sonalis
— imaginary world experienced while dreaming
Norwegian Bokmål:
drømmeland
— imaginary world experienced while dreaming
Plautdietsch:
Pooselaunt
— imaginary world experienced while dreaming
Polish:
kraina marzeń
— imaginary world experienced while dreaming
Russian:
ска́зочная страна́
(skázočnaja straná)
— imaginary world experienced while dreaming
Russian:
мир грёз
(mir grjoz)
— imaginary world experienced while dreaming
Spanish:
país de los sueños
— imaginary world experienced while dreaming
Turkish:
düşler alemi
— imaginary world experienced while dreaming
Chinese Mandarin:
幻境
(huànjìng)
— imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic
Danish:
drømmeland
— imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic
Finnish:
unelmien maa
— imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic
French:
monde imaginaire
— imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic
French:
paradis
— imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic
Korean:
몽환계
(monghwan'gye)
— imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic
Korean:
몽환경
(monghwan'gyeong)
— imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic
Norwegian Bokmål:
drømmeland
— imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic
Plautdietsch:
Pooselaunt
— imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic
Polish:
kraina marzeń
— imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic
Turkish:
düşler ülkesi
— imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic
