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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. An ideal or imaginary land.
  2. n. A state of sleep.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The land or region seen in dreams; hence, the land of fancy or imagination; the region of reverie.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An imaginary world experienced while dreaming.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. An unreal, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination

Examples

  • “Why, they was four rounds I was in dreamland all the time ... only I kept on my feet an 'fought, or took the count to eight an' got up, an 'stalled an' covered an 'whanged away.”

    CHAPTER XIII

  • “I'm somewhat of a realist, and some other people are living in dreamland over there [in Washington].”

    The Washington Post: Beyond the tea party: What Americans really think of government

  • “Chris is back downstairs with Bee happily in dreamland within about ½ an hour.”

    Workin' 5-9

  • “It's computer-graphics with bright colors, so it looks a bit like some of these recent Fairytale pictures (Shrek, Happily Never After,) and it tells the story of a boy named Alex who grew up spending his nights in dreamland, who then hasn't dreamed in eight years.”

    The Dreamland Chronicles

  • “The story alternates between adventures in dreamland and the waking world, where Alex's brother and some others are trying to investigate what happens to Alex at night.”

    The Dreamland Chronicles

  • “I am loathe to do another prediction, if only because I enjoy living in dreamland of an SNP demolition of Labour!”

    Superpoll => Superpredictor

  • “Targets are a complete and utter farcical nonsense which should be binned at the next available opportunity (only in dreamland I think that will ever happen methinks)”

    Monday morning, five nineteen. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG

  • “Alice in dreamland underwent remarkable transformations," he wrote, "but the physicists are changing substances and analyzing structure of atoms in a way that makes Lewis Carroll's wildest flight of fancy seem humdrum.”

    Mind Over Matter

  • “He says I am either in dreamland or earthland or mule-land, and if I ever get the three together, I'll be all set, though I wonder where I will be then.”

    Excerpt: The Wanderer by Sharon Creech

  • “If I'm not in dreamland or earthland or mule-land, where will I be?”

    Excerpt: The Wanderer by Sharon Creech

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