Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A world of dreams or illusive shows.

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

  • noun A pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination; a fantasy land.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An imaginary land, such as experienced while dreaming.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination

Etymologies

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dream +‎ world

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Examples

  • Will is living is a freakin dreamworld like the rest of the conservatives.

    Think Progress » Attacking Global Warming Science: Where There’s George Will, There’s a Way 2006

  • But now that we're all plugged into the Matrix, will we basically conjure up a "dreamworld" that feels very much like the "real world?"

    Archive 2007-11-01 Anxious Black Woman 2007

  • But now that we're all plugged into the Matrix, will we basically conjure up a "dreamworld" that feels very much like the "real world?"

    Transcending "Race" in Cyberspace? Yeah, Right! Anxious Black Woman 2007

  • Halfway through the movie, I realized that I was translating the events into a separate story in my head: I was imagining a painful, naturalistic story underneath the one being presented by the film, and so the film became a kind of dreamworld that the "real" Kitten in my mind used as an escape.

    Archive 2006-04-01 2006

  • Halfway through the movie, I realized that I was translating the events into a separate story in my head: I was imagining a painful, naturalistic story underneath the one being presented by the film, and so the film became a kind of dreamworld that the "real" Kitten in my mind used as an escape.

    Breakfast on Pluto 2006

  • One, for example, which said in substance that ‘psychopaths shut themselves up in a world of their own, a dreamworld which is more important to them than reality’.

    Maigret has Scruples Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1958

  • Joe, you’ve already shown that you live in some kind of dreamworld where even though repubs control all branches of government and a broad swath of the mainstream media, Democrats are somehow to blame for the mess we’re in today.

    Think Progress » Gore To Bush On Iraq: It’s Not About You 2006

  • A literal translation of the dreamworld I was speaking of above:

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • A literal translation of the dreamworld I was speaking of above:

    Fleet Foxes 2009

  • “Twelve thousand units”, he thought as he sank deeper into his dreamworld.

    365 tomorrows » 2009 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

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