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Dreamworld

Definition: Dreamworld

Dreamworld

Noun

1. A pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Dreamworld

Synonyms: dreamland (n), never-never land (n). (additional references)

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Use in Literature: Dreamworld

TitleAuthorQuote

Time Enough for Love

Robert Heinlein

A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Dreamworld

"Dreamworld" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dreamworld" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%8124,375

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Dreamworld

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dreamworld

115

australia dreamworld

13

coast dreamworld gold

7

complex dreamworld music

5

big brother dreamworld

5

club dreamworld

4

arlington dreamworld

3

dreamworld queensland

3

australia big brother dreamworld

2

back dreamworld drop

2

dreamworld production

2

dreamworld thailand

2

diver dreamworld reef

2

bangkok dreamworld

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Dreamworld

Language Translations for "dreamworld"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

botë e ëndërruar. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

страна на приказките (dreamland). (various references)

   

Czech

  

říše snù. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

álomvilág (cloud-land, cloud-world, dreamland, dream-world). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eamworlddray

   

Russian 

  

сказочная страна (cloud-cuckoo-land, cloud-land, cloud-world, dreamland, dream-land, fairyland). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zemlja snova (dreamland), svet snova. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

drömvärld (cloud-world, dreamland). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Dreamworld

Derivations

Words beginning with "dreamworld": dreamworlds. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Dreamworld"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "dreamworld" (pronounced drē"mwer'ld)
4-w er' l dnetherworld, underworld.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Dreamworld

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-l-m-o-r-r-w"

-2 letters: marrowed.

-3 letters: armored, arrowed, dawdler, drawled, drawler, earldom, earworm, waddler, warlord.

-4 letters: adored, adorer, dawdle, deodar, dermal, deworm, dormer, drawer, ladder, larded, larder, loaded, loader, loamed, lorded, madder, marled, marred, marrow, meadow, medlar, molded, molder, morale, ordeal, raddle, radome, ramrod, redowa, redraw, reload, remold, remora, reward, rewarm, reword, roamed, roamer, roared, wadder, waddle.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-l-m-o-r-r-w"
 

+1 letter: dreamworlds.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Dreamworld


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 72 65 61 6D 77 6F 72 6C 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    .-.    .    .-    --    .--.    ---    .-.    .-..    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101101 01110111 01101111 01110010 01101100 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#114 &#101 &#97 &#109 &#119 &#111 &#114 &#108 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0072 0065 0061 006D 0077 006F 0072 006C 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38847167798981847870

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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