| has gloss | (noun) a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings
mythical place, imaginary place, fictitious place |
| lexicalization | eng: fictitious place |
| lexicalization | eng: imaginary place |
| lexicalization | eng: mythical place |
| subclass of | (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be"
imagination, vision, imaginativeness |
| has subclass | (noun) the place where you are after you die
afterworld |
| has subclass | (noun) (Welsh mythology) the other world; land of fairies
Annwn, Annwfn |
| has subclass | (noun) (Norse mythology) the heavenly dwelling of the Norse gods (the Aesir) and slain war heroes
Asgard |
| has subclass | (noun) according to legend, an island in the Atlantic Ocean that Plato said was swallowed by an earthquake
Atlantis |
| has subclass | (noun) a land imagined by Jonathan Swift where everything was enormous
Brobdingnag |
| has subclass | (noun) an imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality
cloud-cuckoo-land |
| has subclass | (noun) (Middle Ages) an imaginary land of luxury and idleness
Cockaigne |
| has subclass | (noun) an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought in South America by 16th-century explorers
El Dorado, eldorado |
| has subclass | (noun) the enchanted realm of fairies
fairyland, faery, faerie |
| has subclass | (noun) the abode of God and the angels
Heaven |
| has subclass | (noun) a place or condition of ideal happiness
Elysium |
| has subclass | (noun) (religion) the world of the dead; "No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth"-Theognis
Scheol, underworld, Hades, Hell, netherworld, infernal region |
| has subclass | (noun) (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment; "Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell"- John Milton; "a demon from the depths of the pit"; "Hell is paved with good intentions"-Dr. Johnson
perdition, nether region, Inferno, pit, Hell, infernal region |
| has subclass | (noun) a land imagined by Jonathan Swift where intelligent horses ruled the Yahoos
Houyhnhnms |
| has subclass | (noun) a land imagined by Jonathan Swift where impractical projects were pursued and practical projects neglected
Laputa |
| has subclass | (noun) a land imagined by Jonathan Swift that was inhabited by tiny people
Lilliput |
| has subclass | (noun) (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals)
limbo |
| has subclass | (noun) an imaginary place for lost or neglected things
limbo |
| has subclass | (noun) (Norse mythology) the abode of humans in Norse mythology
Midgard |
| has subclass | (noun) a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination
dreamland, never-never land, dreamworld |
| has subclass | (noun) (theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins
purgatory |
| has subclass | (noun) an imaginary kingdom in central Europe; often used as a scene for intrigue and romance
Ruritania |
| has subclass | (noun) any imaginary place where spiritual beings (demons or fairies or angels or the like) abide; "science has emptied the spirit world of its former inhabitants"
spirit world |
| has subclass | (noun) an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal
Utopia, Sion, Zion |
| has subclass | (noun) an imaginary realm of marvels or wonders
wonderland |