English
Adjective
fairyland (not comparable)
- Having qualities ascribed to fairies and their realm; fanciful, delicate, surreal, or diminutive.
- The children built a fairyland cottage out of gingerbread, decorated with gumdrops and peppermint sticks.
Noun
fairyland (plural fairylands)
- The imaginary land or abode of fairies.
- 2004, Algernon Blackwood, A Prisoner in Fairyland , Kessinger Publishing, page 174
- Not merely a foolish fairyland of make-believe and dragons and princesses imprisoned in animals, but a fairyland the whole world needs - the sympathy of sweet endeavour, love, gentleness and sacrifice for others.
Synonyms
Translations
the imaginary land or abode of fairies
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 仙境 (zh) (xiānjìng), 洞天 (zh) (dòngtiān)
- French: royaume des fées m, pays des fées m
- German: Märchenland n
- Hungarian: tündérország (hu), meseország (hu)
- Ido: feolando (io)
- Japanese: 仙境 (せんきょう, senkyō), フェアリーランド (fearīrando)
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- Kyrgyz: сыйкырдуу өлкө (ky) (sıykırduu ölkö)
- Latin: terra divalis
- Portuguese: mundo das fadas m
- Russian: ска́зочная страна́ f (skázočnaja straná), волше́бная страна́ f (volšébnaja straná)
- Volapük: feyalän (vo), märalän (vo)
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References
- fairyland in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913