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noun
A place where one can relax, entertain or recreate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: pleasure palace, Xanadu, Shangri-La, paradise, pleasuredom
Antonyms: none provided
History
From pleasure + dome, from the opening lines of Kubla Khan (completed 1797; published 1816) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea."
