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dreamworld

noun

Etymology

From dream + world. Compare West Frisian dreamwrâld (“dreamworld”), Dutch droomwereld, dromenwereld (“dreamworld”), German Traumwelt (“dreamworld”), Danish drømmeverden (“dreamworld”), Swedish drömvärld (“dreamworld”).

  1. inherited from *weraldiz✻ — “lifetime, human existence, world”
  2. inherited from *weraldi✻
  3. inherited from weorold — “world”
  4. inherited from world
  5. compounded as dreamworld — “dream + world”

Definitions

  1. An imaginary world, such as experienced while dreaming.

    • At midnight they left the air-conditioned dream-world and entered the oven of the street.

  2. Synonym of dreamland (“ideal but unrealistic fantasy world”).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dreamworld. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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