fairyland

[ fair-ee-land ]

noun

1. the imaginary realm of fairies.
2. any enchantingly beautiful region.

fairyland

/ ˈfɛərɪˌlænd /

noun

1. the imaginary domain of the fairies; an enchanted or wonderful place
2. a fantasy world, esp one resulting from a person's wild imaginings

Word History and Origins

Origin of fairyland¹

First recorded in 1580–90; fairy + land

Example Sentences

Even now, at 9, she has one foot in reality and the other in a kind of fairyland, and sometimes the boundaries between the two are hard to define.

From Washington Post

Tunku Varadarajan asks, did Greg Smith just wake up from a fairyland?

From The Daily Beast

To address Fleurette, impalpable creation of fairyland, as “old girl” was particularly distasteful.

From Project Gutenberg

"Why, she was very old and was all dried up and withered before Oz became a fairyland," explained the Scarecrow.

From Project Gutenberg

A coach and four, a Cinderella coach, would be the 28 only suitable equipage in which to make this journey into fairyland.

From Project Gutenberg

It is neither the amiable fairyland of Callot nor the bourgeois pessimism 53 of Hogarth.

From Project Gutenberg

Silent like a cloud, the group moves onward—a sweet-scented apparition from fairyland.

From Project Gutenberg

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