fairy-land

Noun

fairyland (countable and uncountable, plural fairylands)

1. The land or abode of fairies.
   • These fairy-lands are only seen by very pious people or by those who are gifted with second sight, when in danger of their lives at sea, and they appear where at other times no land is to be found.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 46
2. Any place of great natural beauty, or having a magical atmosphere.
   • No one who had not observed that for a short distance reeds had taken the place of shrubs, could possibly have guessed the existence of such a stream or dreamed of the fairyland beyond. For a fairyland it was - the most wonderful that the imagination of man could conceive. The thick vegetation met...1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
3. Synonym of dreamland (“ideal but unrealistic fantasy world”).

   Synonyms:

   dreamland

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