dreamworld
nounEtymology From dream + world. Compare West Frisian dreamwrâld (“dreamworld”), Dutch droomwereld, dromenwereld (“dreamworld”), German Traumwelt (“dreamworld”), Danish drømmeverden (“dreamworld”), Swedish drömvärld (“dreamworld”).
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.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 358:
2
Synonym of dreamland (“ideal but unrealistic fantasy world”).
- Related terms
- dreamland, dreamscape, fairyland, fantasy land, cloudland, neverland