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.

plural Disneylands

1. derogatoryinformaloftenA place resembling the Disneyland theme park, often typified by a corporately-designed cheerfulness.

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

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

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   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...

   1979, Myron Matlaw, editor, American popular entertainment

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

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

   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.

   2019 May 26, Dan Cohen, “The Books of College Libraries Are Turning Into Wallpaper”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2019