fairyland
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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fair·y·land
/ ˈferēˌland/
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n.
the imaginary home of fairies.
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a beautiful or seemingly enchanted place.
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an imagined ideal place; a utopia.
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THIS.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 9/1/2000; ; 61 words
; ...into it. All I put up with or embrace-- Hurts and harms, life's only end-- Is like a terrace Hiding something beyond. Some enchanted place! And this is why I write As if I'd taken flight From suffering and the real, Serious about what isn't. Feel?--Let the reader...
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A thirst for adventure: hike up a mountain, cycle along an island shore, rent a houseboat, go whale-watching by kayak... Now that the warm weather's here, it's time to quench your thirst for adventure.
Newspaper article from: Wind Speaker; 5/1/2002; 700+ words
; ...in both the beautiful Bruce Peninsula and Manitoulin Island. The largest freshwater island in the world, Manitoulin is an enchanted place of inland lakes and 1,600 kilometres of coastline, don't miss the island's longest sandy beach, located at the community...
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Restoration project is completed.
Newspaper article from: Malton & Pickering Mercury (Malton, England); 1/2/2008; 504 words
; ...described celebrating Communion at Rievaulx as feeling as if a spiritual steam engine was driving you, and it certainly is an enchanted place. The second stage of repairs at Rievaulx will involve installing a heating system so that visitors and pilgrims to the abbey...
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Remarks at a State Dinner Hosted by Prime Minister Shipley in Christchurch.
Newspaper article from: Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents; 9/20/1999; 559 words
; ...bottom of my heart, this has been a magical trip. I think every person, when he or she is young, dreams of finding some enchanted place, of beautiful mountains and breathtaking coastline and clear lakes and amazing wildlife, and most people give up on it because...
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fairyland
Book article from: Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes
fairyland • and , band, bland, brand, expand, firsthand, gland, grand, hand, land, manned, misunderstand, offhand, rand...x2022; Sudetenland •wasteland • dreamland • peatland •Matabeleland • Ngamiland •fairyland • Dixieland • Swaziland •Thailand ...
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faerie
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
faerie, faery fairyland. var. of FAIRY , perh. based on OF. faerie , adopted by Spenser in ‘The Faerie Queene’ (1590–6).
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wonderland
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
wonderland a land or place full of wonderful things, a fairyland; the term is recorded from the late 18th century, but is most frequently used with reference to the country which Alice found down a rabbit-hole in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
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Collen, Saint
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
Collen, Saint. Legendary 7th-century Welsh saint and eponym of Llangollen who was thought to have visited fairyland. After having been an abbot at Glastonbury , Collen resigns and becomes a hermit nearby. After rebuking two men for speaking of...
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Starlight Express, The
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Starlight Express, The. Incidental mus. by Elgar, Op.78, to play by Violet Pearn based on Algernon Blackwood's Prisoner in Fairyland . Prod. London 1915. Contains songs for sop. and bass soloists. Quotes themes from Wand of Youth . Cowbells and wind-machine...
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