wonderland

English

Etymology

From wonder +‎ land.

Noun

wonderland (plural wonderlands)

An imaginary or real place full of wonder or marvels.
- 1790 J. Wolcot Compl. Epist. to Bruce 332, in Wks. (1812) II. 368
  
  Where other trav'lers, fraught with terror, roam, Lo! Bruce in Wonder-land is quite at home.

Derived terms

Alice in Wonderland
winter wonderland

Translations

Imaginary or real place full of wonder or marvels

Catalan: país de les meravelles m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 仙境 (zh) (xiānjìng)
Esperanto: mirlando
Estonian: imedemaa
Finnish: ihmemaa
French: pays des merveilles m
German: Wunderland
Greek: χώρα tων θαυμάτων f (chóra ton thavmáton)

Hungarian: csodaország (hu)
Italian: paese delle meraviglie m
Japanese: 不思議な国 (ふしぎなくに, fushigi na kuni), おとぎの国 (おとぎのくに, otogi no kuni), 仙境 (せんきょう, senkyō)
Latin: terra mirabilis
Portuguese: país das maravilhas m
Russian: страна́ чуде́с f (straná čudés)
Spanish: país de las maravillas
Swahili: nchi ya ajabu

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