What does "brigadoon" mean?

A place that seems magically transient.

Brigadoon

Q: What is a synonym for "brigadoon"?

Common synonyms include: ephemeral dream, ephemeral town, fleeting utopia, legendary locale, musical, mythical place.

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Noun

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A place that seems magically transient.
"I saw the rain dirty valley / You saw Brigadoon"

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ephemeral dream ephemeral town fleeting utopia legendary locale musical mythical place

Antonyms

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constant place enduring circumstance enduring settlement lasting impression

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"I saw the rain dirty valley / You saw Brigadoon"

Etymology

After the village in the 1947 musical of the same name, written by Alan Jay Lerner. That village appears for only one day every hundred years. The name of the village is taken from the Brig o' Doon mediaeval bridge, in Ayrshire, Scotland.

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