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# wonderland

«wonderland» in Mova's school dictionary: **A place full of wonderful, magical or beautiful things** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a wonderland, wonderlands); Wonderland — a name

### meaning for a pupil

1) A place full of wonderful, magical or beautiful things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderland/#m1)

2) Wonderland is the strange dream world Alice falls into down the rabbit hole in Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderland/#m2)

3) A place that is very beautiful at a certain time, such as «a winter wonderland» when everything is covered in snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderland/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In Alice, Wonderland is a place where nothing follows normal rules: drinks make you shrink, a cat grins and vanishes, and the Queen wants to cut off everyone's head. At the end Alice wakes up and it was a dream. In everyday life people use the word for a place that seems too good or strange to be real. Phrases: «winter wonderland», «a toy wonderland», «Alice in Wonderland».

### examples

- Alice fell down the rabbit hole into Wonderland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderland/#x1)
- After the snowstorm the garden was a winter wonderland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderland/#x2)
- The toy shop was a wonderland of lights and games. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderland/#x3)
- In Wonderland, animals talk and argue with Alice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderland/#x4)
- The coral reef is an underwater wonderland of colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderland/#x5)
- When Alice woke up, Wonderland was only a dream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderland/#x6)
- The book is often called «Alice in Wonderland» for short. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/wonderland/#x7)

### note

Write Wonderland with a capital W when it is Alice's world. Countable: a wonderland. The full title is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

### Trees and pragmatics

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