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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To enter Fairyland, and it’s estimated that about 150,000 people do each year, is to not just set foot into a handcrafted fantasyland but to also step back in time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2026
Other denizens chose denial and willful ignorance, turning inward to a fantasyland where, somehow, everything was normal, even when it was not.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2025
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
The Olympic Village was like an athlete’s fantasyland, with a pool and workout studios and a huge twenty-four-hour cafeteria with every style of food imaginable.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
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