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# fairyland

«fairyland» in Mova's school dictionary: **The magical, imaginary land where fairies live in stories** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (fairyland, fairylands)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The magical, imaginary land where fairies live in stories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fairyland/#m1)

2) A place so beautiful, sparkling or magical that it seems unreal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fairyland/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A story and everyday word: «like fairyland» describes a garden full of lights, a snowy forest or a decorated town at Christmas. Alice in Wonderland is not called fairyland, but it is a magical dream-land of the same kind, and Alice even says she is «in the middle of a fairy-tale» now.

### examples

- In the old story, the girl was carried off to fairyland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fairyland/#x1)
- The garden with all its lanterns looked like fairyland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fairyland/#x2)
- The snowy forest was a fairyland of white. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fairyland/#x3)
- Alice felt she was living in a kind of fairyland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fairyland/#x4)
- The town square becomes a fairyland at Christmas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fairyland/#x5)
- My little brother thinks the bottom of the garden is fairyland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fairyland/#x6)
- He felt as if they were now about to enter fairyland, though everything was still real. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fairyland/#x7)

### note

Written as one word. Usually without «a» when it means the magic land («in fairyland»), but «a fairyland of lights» is fine. Related: fairy, fairy tale, fairy-tale (adjective). Fairies are imaginary; there is no real fairyland.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fairyland» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fairyland/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.