fairyland
part of speech
noun (fairyland, fairylands)
meaning for a pupil
1) The magical, imaginary land where fairies live in stories. tree →
2) A place so beautiful, sparkling or magical that it seems unreal. tree →
sense in the lessons
A story and everyday word: «like fairyland» describes a garden full of lights, a snowy forest or a decorated town at Christmas. Alice in Wonderland is not called fairyland, but it is a magical dream-land of the same kind, and Alice even says she is «in the middle of a fairy-tale» now.
examples
- In the old story, the girl was carried off to fairyland. tree →
- The garden with all its lanterns looked like fairyland. tree →
- The snowy forest was a fairyland of white. tree →
- Alice felt she was living in a kind of fairyland. tree →
- The town square becomes a fairyland at Christmas. tree →
- My little brother thinks the bottom of the garden is fairyland. tree →
- He felt as if they were now about to enter fairyland, though everything was still real. tree →
note
Written as one word. Usually without «a» when it means the magic land («in fairyland»), but «a fairyland of lights» is fine. Related: fairy, fairy tale, fairy-tale (adjective). Fairies are imaginary; there is no real fairyland.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «fairyland» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.