Dreamworld

noun

noun ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An imaginary world, such as experienced while dreaming.

    "At midnight they left the air-conditioned dream-world and entered the oven of the street."

  2. 2
    a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination wordnet

Example

More examples

"At midnight they left the air-conditioned dream-world and entered the oven of the street."

Etymology

From dream + world. Compare West Frisian dreamwrâld (“dreamworld”), Dutch droomwereld, dromenwereld (“dreamworld”), German Traumwelt (“dreamworld”), Danish drømmeverden (“dreamworld”), Swedish drömvärld (“dreamworld”).

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