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Definition of Fairyland

1. Noun. Something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality).

Definition of Fairyland

1. n. The imaginary land or abode of fairies.

Definition of Fairyland

1. Adjective. Having qualities ascribed to fairies and their realm; fanciful, delicate, surreal, or diminutive. ¹

2. Noun. The imaginary land or abode of fairies. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fairyland

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fairyland

Literary usage of Fairyland

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse (1922)
"fairyland AND A BELGIAN ARIOSTO IT has often been said—it was said in a well-known passage by the elder Disraeli—that in order to appreciate the beauty of ..."

2. Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge by Sara Coleridge Coleridge, Edith Coleridge (1873)
"... but for the love part and the descriptions of personal beauty, I invoked Venus to aid me. On my application she told me that fairyland love ..."

3. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"Of the King's Flight, or sudden disappearance into fairyland, during this first Battle, the King himself, who alone could have told us fully, ..."

4. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"... or sudden disappearance into fairyland, during this first Battle, the King himself, who alone could have told us fully, maintained always rigorous ..."

5. Tatterdemalion by John Galsworthy (1920)
"VI fairyland It was about three o'clock, this November afternoon, when I rode down into "fairyland," as it is called about here. The birch-trees there are ..."

6. Handbook of the Operas by Edith Bertha Ordway (1917)
"fairyland \ MERICAN allegorical grand opera. ... in the Valley of Shadows, also called the World, which seen in a certain light is also fairyland. ..."

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