Disneyland

English

Etymology

From 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

Polish

Disneyland

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Disneyland.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdis.nɛj.lant/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛjlant
• Syllabification: Dis‧ney‧land

Proper noun

Disneyland m inan

1. Disneyland (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)

Declension

Declension of Disneyland

	singular	plural
nominative	Disneyland	Disneylandy
genitive	Disneylandu	Disneylandów
dative	Disneylandowi	Disneylandom
accusative	Disneyland	Disneylandy
instrumental	Disneylandem	Disneylandami
locative	Disneylandzie	Disneylandach
vocative	Disneylandzie	Disneylandy

Related terms

adjectives

• disnejowski

 

nouns

• Disney

 

Further reading

• Disneyland in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Disneyland in PWN's encyclopedia