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Fantasyland

Fantasyland

See also: fantasyland and fantasy land

English

Noun

Fantasyland (plural Fantasylands)

  1. Alternative form of fantasyland
    • 2009, John C. Maxwell, Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions That Will Help You See It and Seize It, p. 50:
      If your dream depends a lot on luck, then you're in trouble. If it depends entirely on luck, you're living in Fantasyland. ... People who build their dream on reality take a very different approach to dreams than do people who live in Fantasyland.
    • 2007, Colleen Sell, A Cup of Comfort for Writers, p. 28:
      Yes, I escaped into Fantasyland. However, I could just as easily have become a serial killer, a prostitute, a child beater, or a politician.
    • 2003, Richard G. Lipsey, Christopher Ragan, Economics, p. 327:
      On a scale diagram, with the percentage of households on the vertical axis and the percentage of aggregate income on the horizontal axis, plot the Lorenz curve for Fantasyland.
    • 1999, John Clute, John Grant, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, p. 341:
      A typical Fantasyland will display - often initially by means of a prefatory MAP - a selection, sometimes very full, from a more or less fixed list of landscape ingredients..."
    • 1997, Jay Gummerman, Chez Chance, p. 174:
      Maybe this Fantasyland, as the egg woman called it, would counteract all the weirdness that had been accumulating since. ... Once this Fantasyland had kicked in, he would be on autopilot: all the necessary motivation would be provided for him.
    • 1986, Elma Schemenauer, Hello Edmonton, p. 15:
      Now leave Fantasyland and go back to the days of fur traders.

fantasyland

fantasyland

See also: Fantasyland and fantasy land

English

Noun

fantasyland (plural fantasylands)

  1. Alternative form of fantasy land
    • 1988, May 27, “Ted Cox”, in Reading: Artists in Dreamland:
      That, however, is in the fantasyland where comic-strip characters grow up.