Disneyland

English

Etymology

Disney +‎ -land

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪzniːˌlænd/

Proper noun

Disneyland

1. The archetypical theme park, located in Anaheim, California. Other Disneyland theme parks exist in other cities such as Chessy (Seine-et-Marne, France), Tokyo, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.

Gallery

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  Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
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  Disneyland in Tokyo, Japan.
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  Disneyland in Shanghai, China.

Translations

Disneyland, theme park

• Arabic: دِيزْنِي لَانْد m (dīznī lānd)
• Bulgarian: Дисниленд m (Disnilend)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 迪斯尼樂園／迪斯尼乐园 (zh) (Dísīní lèyuán), 迪士尼樂園／迪士尼乐园 (zh) (Díshìní lèyuán)

• Esperanto: Diznejlando
• French: Disneyland f
• Greek: Ντίσνεϋλαντ f (Ntísneÿlant)
• Hebrew: דיסנילנד
• Hindi: डिज़्नीलैंड (ḍiznīlaiṇḍ), डिज़्नी (ḍiznī)
• Japanese: ディズニーランド (Dizunīrando)
• Korean: 디즈니랜드 (dijeuniraendeu)
• Latin: Disneylandia f
• Persian: دیزنی‌لند
• Polish: Disneyland (pl) m
• Portuguese: Disneylândia f
• Russian: Диснейленд m (Disnejlend)
• Serbo-Croatian: Дизниленд m
• Spanish: Disneylandia f
• Thai: ดิสนีย์แลนด์ (dít-nee-laen)

See also

• Anaheim
• Disney
• Disneyworld
• Mickey Mouse

Derived terms

• Brisneyland
• Disneylandification
• Prisneyland

Noun

Disneyland (plural Disneylands)

1. (informal, often derogatory) A place resembling the Disneyland theme park, often typified by a corporately-designed saccharine cheerfulness.
   • 1979, Myron Matlaw, editor, American popular entertainment:

     With its talking statuary, its enormous and elaborate monuments and museums, and its variety of daily shows, it has become a Disneyland of the dead...

   • 1988 August 29, “The Last Temptation of Christ”, in New York Magazine, volume 21, number 34:

     Certainly anyone devoted to maintaining Christ as a lacquered benevolent spirit in a Disneyland of happiness is not going to like this movie.

   • 2007, Valerie Easton, A pattern garden: the essential elements of garden making:

     This approach can lead to a Disneyland of a garden that busily vies for attention with the view, bringing out the best in neither.

   • 2019 May 26, Dan Cohen, “The Books of College Libraries Are Turning Into Wallpaper”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     But there is another future that these statistics and our nostalgic reaction to them might produce: the research library as a Disneyland of books, with banker’s lamps and never-cracked spines providing the suggestion of, but not the true interaction with, knowledge old and new.

Anagrams

• dandy lines