Peter Pan

noun

1. the hero of Sir James M. Barrie's play about a boy who never grew up.

2. (italics),  the play itself (1904).

Peter Pan

noun

1. a youthful, boyish, or immature man

Peter Pan

1. (1904) A play by the Scottish author James Matthew Barrie about a boy who lives in Neverland, better known as Never-Never Land, a country where no child ever grows up. Peter brings the three children of the Darling family from London to Never-Never Land; they eventually decide not to stay, but Wendy, the eldest, promises to return every spring. Peter is assisted by his guardian fairy, Tinker Bell, and in the play he defeats his enemy, the pirate Captain Hook.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Peter Pan¹

C20: after the main character in Peter Pan (1904), a play by J. M. Barrie

Example Sentences

But then neither did Peter Pan.

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Over the last decade, Martin has darted through the forest of popular culture like a modern-day Peter Pan, if Peter had been less afraid of growing up and more concerned with what that actually means.

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George Webster will be one of Captain Hook's pirates in The All New Adventures of Peter Pan, at the Royal & Derngate theatre in Northampton over the festive season.

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He is Peter Pan, and he dubs Wendy and other man-machine hybrids like her The Lost Boys – juvenile minds downloaded into bodies resembling human adults that will never age.

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Below Backwater, at the foot of the Angus glens, lies the little town of Kirriemuir - best known as the birthplace of Peter Pan's creator, JM Barrie.

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