Meanings
fantasyland1
plural fantasylands
- alternativeAlternative form of fantasy land.
That, however, is in the fantasyland where comic-strip characters grow up.
1988 May 27, Ted Cox, “Reading: Artists in Dreamland”, in Chicago Reader
Fantasyland2
plural Fantasylands
- alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of fantasyland.
Now leave Fantasyland and go back to the days of fur traders.
1986, Elma Schemenauer, Hello Edmonton, page 155 more examples
If your dream depends a lot on luck, then you're in trouble. If it depends entirely on luck, you're living in Fantasyland. ... People who build their dream on reality take a very different approach to dreams than do people who live in Fantasyland.
2009, John C. Maxwell, Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions That Will Help You See It and Seize It, page 50Yes, I escaped into Fantasyland. However, I could just as easily have become a serial killer, a prostitute, a child beater, or a politician.
2007, Colleen Sell, A Cup of Comfort for Writers, page 28On a scale diagram, with the percentage of households on the vertical axis and the percentage of aggregate income on the horizontal axis, plot the Lorenz curve for Fantasyland.
2003, Richard G. Lipsey, Christopher Ragan, Economics, page 327A typical Fantasyland will display - often initially by means of a prefatory MAP - a selection, sometimes very full, from a more or less fixed list of landscape ingredients..."
1999, John Clute, John Grant, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, page 341Maybe this Fantasyland, as the egg woman called it, would counteract all the weirdness that had been accumulating since. ... Once this Fantasyland had kicked in, he would be on autopilot: all the necessary motivation would be provided for him.
1997, Jay Gummerman, Chez Chance, page 174
Origin
Perhaps capitalized under the influence of Walt Disney's Fantasyland theme park areas, which are noted for containing imagery relating to fairy tales.
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