neverland

noun

Etymology

From Never + land. The term was most famously used in J.M. Barrie's Book, Peter Pan, as the name of the fictional island that the Darling children visit with the title character. Compare utopia, which is semantically Ancient Greek οὐ (ou, “not, no”) + τόπος (tópos, “place, region”), suggesting a nonexistent place.

  1. derived from *lendʰ-
  2. inherited from *landą
  3. inherited from *land
  4. inherited from land
  5. inherited from lond
  6. formed as neverland — “never + land

Definitions

  1. An ideal, fantastical, imaginary, or dreamlike place.

    • Near-synonyms: La-La Land, fantasy land, dreamland, dreamworld

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA