dreamworld
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
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)
- 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.
Translations edit
an imaginary world
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