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noun
Meaning 1
An ideal, fantastical, imaginary, or dreamlike place.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
Near-synonyms: La-La Land, fantasy land, dreamland, dreamworld
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: La-La Land, fantasy land, dreamland, dreamworld
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Never + land. The term was most famously used in J.M. Barrie's Book, Peter Pan, as the name of the fictional island that the Darling children visit with the title character. Compare utopia, which is semantically Ancient Greek οὐ (ou, “not, no”) + τόπος (tópos, “place, region”), suggesting a nonexistent place.
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Chinese:
烏有鄉 /乌有乡
— an ideal or imaginary place
Danish:
Ønskeøen
— an ideal or imaginary place
Esperanto:
neniamlando
— an ideal or imaginary place
French:
pays imaginaire
— an ideal or imaginary place
German:
Nimmerland
— an ideal or imaginary place
Greek:
χώρα του ποτέ
(chóra tou poté)
— an ideal or imaginary place
Hebrew:
אֶרֶץ לְעוֹלָם לֹא
(éretz l'olám-lo)
— an ideal or imaginary place
Hungarian:
sohaország
— an ideal or imaginary place
Italian:
isola che non c'è
— an ideal or imaginary place
Latin:
insula imaginaria
— an ideal or imaginary place
Latin:
terra imaginaria
— an ideal or imaginary place
Macedonian:
недојдија
(nedojdija)
— an ideal or imaginary place
Persian:
ناکجا آباد
(nâkojâ âbâd)
— an ideal or imaginary place
Polish:
Nibylandia
— an ideal or imaginary place
Portuguese:
terra do nunca
— an ideal or imaginary place
Russian:
нетла́ндия
(netlándija)
— an ideal or imaginary place
Russian:
небыля́ндия
(nebyljándija)
— an ideal or imaginary place
Swedish:
landet ingenstans
— an ideal or imaginary place