Fairyland
adj, noun ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The land or abode of fairies. countable, uncountable
"These fairy-lands are only seen by very pious people or by those who are gifted with second sight, when in danger of their lives at sea, and they appear where at other times no land is to be found."
- 2 the enchanted realm of fairies wordnet
- 3 Any place of great natural beauty, or having a magical atmosphere. countable, uncountable
"No one who had not observed that for a short distance reeds had taken the place of shrubs, could possibly have guessed the existence of such a stream or dreamed of the fairyland beyond. For a fairyland it was - the most wonderful that the imagination of man could conceive. The thick vegetation met overhead, interlacing into a natural pergola, and through this tunnel of verdure in a golden twilight flowed the green, pellucid river, beautiful in itself, but marvelous from the strange tints thrown by the vivid light from above filtered and tempered in its fall."
- 4 something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality) wordnet
- 1 Having qualities ascribed to fairies and their realm; fanciful, delicate, surreal, or diminutive. not-comparable
"The children built a fairyland cottage out of gingerbread, decorated with gumdrops and peppermint sticks."
Example
More examples"The loaf of bread was so fine that nobody could even describe it, for only in fairyland does one find such marvelous loaves."
Etymology
From fairy + land.
More for "fairyland"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.