dreamland
[f. dream n.2 + land.]
The land or country which one sees in dreams, and which exists only in imagination; an ideal or imaginary land. Also attrib.
| a 1834 Lamb Let. to Coleridge (L.), They are real, and have a venue in their respective districts in dreamland. 1843 Carlyle Past & Pr. ii. i, This England of the Year 1200 was no chimerical vacuity or dream-land. 1847 A. C. Coxe Chr. Ballads (1861) 30 In Dreamland once I saw a Church..And Dreamland Church was decent all. 1885 Lowell Pr. Wks. (1890) VI. 74 That delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland. 1895 Tablet 20 July 108 A dreamland scheme of conditional reunion. |