fantasyland
Americannoun
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a place or circumstance existing only in the imagination or as an ideal; dream world.
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an amusement park whose attractions are based on a theme, as fairy tales or exotic locales; theme park.
Etymology
Origin of fantasyland
Example Sentences
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The 2003 version of the mall is a fantasyland beckoning shoppers with luxuriant versions of necessities and frivolous impulse purchases.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2023
Lewis knockoff fantasyland can’t maintain the “extreme, surreal privacy” she comes to cherish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2022
Mr. Taruskin’s polemics, he added, “ultimately served a constructive goal of taking classical music out of fantasyland and into the real world.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2022
It’s a light “upstairs downstairs” dramedy that feels far removed from the political and social reality of late 1920s England, which is a fantasyland compared to early 2020s America.
From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2022
Somewhere in fantasyland Ignatius was dreaming of a terrified Myma Minkoff being tried by a court of Taste and Decency and found wanting.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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