dreamworld

English

Alternative forms

• dream-world, dream world

Etymology

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

Noun

dreamworld (plural dreamworlds)

1. An imaginary world, such as experienced while dreaming.
   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 358:

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

Translations

an imaginary world

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 梦境 (zh) (mèngjìng)

• Danish: drømmeverden c
• Dutch: droomwereld (nl) m
• Finnish: unimaailma, unten maa, haavemaailma
• German: Traumwelt (de) f
• Hungarian: álomvilág (hu)
• Latin: mundus imaginarius, mundus sonialis
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: drømmeverden m

  Nynorsk: draumeverd f, draumverd f

• Spanish: mundo de los sueños pl
• Swedish: drömvärld c
• Turkish: düşler alemi

See also

• dreamland
• dreamscape
• fairyland
• fantasy land
• Fantasy prone personality on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• cloudland
• neverland