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Legoland

Legoland noun: a place characterised by square edges and extreme regularity.

Noun

Legoland (plural Legolands)

  1. (slang) A place characterised by square edges and extreme regularity.
    • ...three hundred yards back from that, behind a legoland of hotels and apartment blocks...1997, Mark McCrum, No worries: a journey through Australia
    • Its pristine stone houses, most of which date from around 1685, are undeniably photogenic, with their steep metal roofs, numerous chimneys and pastel-coloured shutters, but it's a Legoland townscape, devoid of the scars of history.2004, Tim Jepson, The rough guide to Canada

Examples of Legoland in a sentence

  • Gradually these Legolands appear bigger and bigger, closer and closer, as the aircraft descends.2004, Neil Leach, Laurent Gutierrez, Valérie Portefaix, China:
  • Unlike most cities and towns in the East, one Bavarian preservationist claimed, modernized West German cities had mutated into "schematized Legolands"...2004, Yorke M Rowan, Uzi Baram, Marketing heritage: archaeology and the consumption of the past:

Forms of Legoland

pluralLegolands

Origin of Legoland

Name of a chain of theme parks (Legoland) based on the Lego building bricks; + -land.

Questions about Legoland

What does Legoland mean?
Legoland means a place characterised by square edges and extreme regularity.
How do you use Legoland in a sentence?
Gradually these Legolands appear bigger and bigger, closer and closer, as the aircraft descends.
What part of speech is Legoland?
Legoland is a noun.
What is the plural of Legoland?
The plural of Legoland is Legolands.

Words near Legoland in the dictionary

  1. legmen
  2. Legnica
  3. lego
  4. lego-literary
  5. legoglobin
  6. Legoland
  7. Legolands
  8. Legolas
  9. legong
  10. legongs
  11. Legorreta

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