dreamworld

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

Noun[edit]

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.

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