Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The imaginary land of fairies.
- noun A charming, enchanting place.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The imaginary land or abode of fairies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The imaginary land or abode of fairies.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having qualities ascribed to
fairies and their realm;fanciful ,delicate ,surreal , ordiminutive . - noun The
imaginary land or abode offairies .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality)
- noun the enchanted realm of fairies
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Examples
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Eagle_eye - the fairyland is what the current plan is.
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However, Spirited Away combines a charming, classical plot -- a girl captured and enslaved in fairyland, forced to work in a sort of bathhouse for mythological gods and monsters -- with incredible animation which updates Miyazaki's character designs with gorgeous digital colors and sparing use of CG.
MIND MELD: Anime Film Favorites (+ The Top 14 Anime Films of All Time!) 2010
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The road to fairyland is not the road to Heaven, nor even to Hell, I believe, though some have held that it may lead thither indirectly by the Devil's tithe.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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The road to fairyland is not the road to Heaven, nor even to Hell, I believe, though some have held that it may lead thither indirectly by the Devil's tithe.
Telling Quotes 2007
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NASHOLA did not live in fairyland, although there were seasons when his country was so beautiful that it might well have belonged to some such enchanted place.
The Windy Hill 1922
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His real home is in fairyland, and he understands fairy language.
An Island Story: A History of England for Boys and Girls Henrietta Elizabeth 1920
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"It must have been a fairies 'garden some time, I'm sure, and I shouldn't wonder if one of the doors into fairyland is hidden somewhere here, if only we could find it."
The Cuckoo Clock 1893
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The way to the true fairyland is hard to find, and we must each find it for ourselves, mustn't we?
The Cuckoo Clock 1893
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Well, keep them in fairyland then, or at least only let them out for visits now and then.
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The sweet wonderful note of a wood thrush, somewhere far out of sight, assured me, what everything conspired to assure me, that I was certainly in fairyland, not on the common earth.
Daisy 1868
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