wonderland
part of speech
noun (a wonderland, wonderlands); Wonderland — a name
meaning for a pupil
1) A place full of wonderful, magical or beautiful things. tree →
2) Wonderland is the strange dream world Alice falls into down the rabbit hole in Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). tree →
3) A place that is very beautiful at a certain time, such as «a winter wonderland» when everything is covered in snow. tree →
sense in the lessons
In Alice, Wonderland is a place where nothing follows normal rules: drinks make you shrink, a cat grins and vanishes, and the Queen wants to cut off everyone's head. At the end Alice wakes up and it was a dream. In everyday life people use the word for a place that seems too good or strange to be real. Phrases: «winter wonderland», «a toy wonderland», «Alice in Wonderland».
examples
- Alice fell down the rabbit hole into Wonderland. tree →
- After the snowstorm the garden was a winter wonderland. tree →
- The toy shop was a wonderland of lights and games. tree →
- In Wonderland, animals talk and argue with Alice. tree →
- The coral reef is an underwater wonderland of colour. tree →
- When Alice woke up, Wonderland was only a dream. tree →
- The book is often called «Alice in Wonderland» for short. tree →
note
Write Wonderland with a capital W when it is Alice's world. Countable: a wonderland. The full title is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Trees and pragmatics
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