dreamland

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an imaginary world experienced in dreams or created by the imagination

   The strange music carried her into a dreamland of moonlit forests and silent cities.

2. 2
   noun

   an idealized but unrealistic state or place

   Their proposal belongs in dreamland unless they can explain how it will be funded.

A compound of dream and land, recorded from the nineteenth century for the imagined country of dreams. It later broadened to any idealized realm detached from practical reality.

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