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IMAGINARY PLACE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings
Synonyms:
fictitious place; imaginary place; mythical place
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("imaginary place" is a kind of...):
imagination; imaginativeness; vision (the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "imaginary place"):
wonderland (an imaginary realm of marvels or wonders)
Sion; Utopia; Zion (an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal)
spirit world (any imaginary place where spiritual beings (demons or fairies or angels or the like) abide)
Ruritania (an imaginary kingdom in central Europe; often used as a scene for intrigue and romance)
purgatory ((theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins)
dreamland; dreamworld; never-never land (a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination)
Midgard ((Norse mythology) the abode of humans in Norse mythology)
limbo (an imaginary place for lost or neglected things)
limbo ((theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals))
Lilliput (a land imagined by Jonathan Swift that was inhabited by tiny people)
Laputa (a land imagined by Jonathan Swift where impractical projects were pursued and practical projects neglected)
Houyhnhnms (a land imagined by Jonathan Swift where intelligent horses ruled the Yahoos)
Hell; infernal region; Inferno; nether region; perdition; pit ((Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment)
Hades; Hell; infernal region; netherworld; Scheol; underworld ((religion) the world of the dead)
Elysium (a place or condition of ideal happiness)
Heaven (the abode of God and the angels)
faerie; faery; fairyland (the enchanted realm of fairies)
El Dorado; eldorado (an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought in South America by 16th-century explorers)
Cockaigne ((Middle Ages) an imaginary land of luxury and idleness)
cloud-cuckoo-land (an imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality)
Brobdingnag (a land imagined by Jonathan Swift where everything was enormous)
Atlantis (according to legend, an island in the Atlantic Ocean that Plato said was swallowed by an earthquake)
Asgard ((Norse mythology) the heavenly dwelling of the Norse gods (the Aesir) and slain war heroes)
Annwfn; Annwn ((Welsh mythology) the other world; land of fairies)
afterworld (the place where you are after you die)
