wonderland

[ wuhn-der-land ]

noun

1. a land of wonders or marvels.
2. a wonderful country or region:

   a wonderland of rare plants and flowers; a winter wonderland.

wonderland

/ ˈwʌndəˌlænd /

noun

1. an imaginary land of marvels or wonders
2. an actual place or scene of great or strange beauty or wonder

Word History and Origins

Origin of wonderland¹

First recorded in 1780–90; wonder + -land

Example Sentences

Thankfully, it’s easy to turn an impenetrable winter wonderland into something you can actually navigate with the best snow blower.

From Popular-Science

Superblue’s first exhibition, “Every Wall Is a Door,” is a color-drenched, digital wonderland by artists Es Devlin, teamLab, and James Turrell.

From Washington Post

A must-see whimsical wonderland, Art Omi is so much more than its trademark cloud installation.

From Washington Post

Thankfully not a crippling blizzard, but rather an enjoyable moderate accumulation that eases us back into a bit of a winter wonderland.

From Washington Post

Also check out the window wonderlands at Nordstrom and Bloomingdale’s.

From Washington Post

One line in “Winter Wonderland” has stopped countless people dead in their tracks.

From The Daily Beast

Wonderland—he journaled under "Fear," renaming it "Wonderland in Alice" later—was incredibly active on RSD forums.

From The Daily Beast

By the next day, more than 500 posts, and all traces of Wonderland, had been deleted.

From The Daily Beast

Wonderland posted videos taken with a hidden camera—in a cross necklace, or inside a watch or glasses—of him hitting on women.

From The Daily Beast

Anana is an Alice figure, and the New York City she lives in a grim, Web 4.0 wonderland.

From The Daily Beast

One is irresistibly reminded of the Cheshire cat in Alice in Wonderland, whose smile remained long after the cat had vanished.

From Project Gutenberg

Again I see the tall, blue smoke of camp-fires ascending from the dim valleys of Wonderland.

From Project Gutenberg

Above this is a world of power and luxury, a wonderland of marvels and thrills, seen through a colored mist of romance.

From Project Gutenberg

She wore it in the fashion of Alice in Wonderland, and it grew redder and redder the longer one looked at it.

From Project Gutenberg

The cloudless moon, floating directly above it, transfigured that narrow and lonely road into a path to wonderland.

From Project Gutenberg

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