Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The region of the elves; fairy-land.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Fairyland.

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Examples

  • The whole point of writing a story in elfland is that true love has power there, and does not really have power among the fields we know; and death has power here, and does not have power there.

    The Laws of Science Fiction Writing 2005

  • Your namesake of the poem was a somewhat uncanny maid, if I recollect aright, and thought as little of seven years in elfland as ordinary folk do of half an hour on upper earth.

    Kilmeny of the Orchard Lucy Maud 1910

  • Would I end up in “fair elfland” if I pressed forward?

    Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011

  • I fought the queen of elfland, song for song and saved my love from her unholy teind.

    skiffy doggerel! shweta_narayan 2010

  • The whole point of creating our own little separate faction in a literary ghetto is to celebrate those things the world rejects, visions of the future among the stars, and dream of elfland in the twilight.

    MIND MELD: What You Should Know About Speculative Fiction and Mainstream Acceptance (Part 1) 2009

  • Would I end up in “fair elfland” if I pressed forward?

    Brush of Darkness Allison Pang 2011

  • "Discarding Old-World models, she constructed, costumed and trained her own marionettes, which have little in common with traditional puppets, for they are neither grotesque nor humorous, being of the exquisite magic of elfland."

    Robert Loerzel: Chicago, "Puppeteer" City 2010

  • Chesterton defines the “ethics of elfland,” the code that regulates fantastical other worlds where fairies glide and monsters prowl.

    Fiction’s job 2010

  • Chesterton defines the “ethics of elfland,” the code that regulates fantastical other worlds where fairies glide and monsters prowl.

    Archive 2010-02-01 2010

  • "Discarding Old-World models, she constructed, costumed and trained her own marionettes, which have little in common with traditional puppets, for they are neither grotesque nor humorous, being of the exquisite magic of elfland."

    Robert Loerzel: Chicago, "Puppeteer" City 2010

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