Fairyland

Definitions

1. The land or abode of fairies.
   countable, uncountable
2. Any place of great natural beauty, or having a magical atmosphere.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“These fairy-lands are only seen by very pious people or by those who are gifted with second sight, when in danger of their lives at sea, and they appear⟳ where at other times no land⟳ is to be found.”

“Disconsolately they shot the water-chute, swung on the swings, ate fairy floss from the booth like⟳ nostalgic exiles from fairyland.”

“Not merely a foolish fairyland of make-believe and dragons and princesses imprisoned in animals, but a fairyland the whole world needs - the sympathy of sweet endeavour, love⟳, gentleness and sacrifice for others.”

“No one who had not observed that for a short distance reeds had taken the place⟳ of shrubs, could possibly have⟳ guessed the existence of such a stream or dreamed of the fairyland beyond. For a fairyland it was - the most wonderful that the imagination of man could conceive. The thick vegetation met overhead, interlacing into a natural pergola, and through this tunnel of verdure in a golden twilight flowed the green, pellucid river, beautiful in itself, but marvelous from the strange tints thrown by the vivid light⟳ from above filtered and tempered in its fall⟳.”

“After months of darkness, mud and shuttered shops, what a delight to see⟳ gay streets filled with stores, all gorgeous in a Christmas fairyland of decoration.”

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