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Definitions: Fairyland |
FairylandNoun1. A place existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality). 2. The enchanted realm of fairies. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fairyland" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references) |
Synonyms: FairylandSynonyms: faerie (n), faery (n), fantasy world (n), phantasy world (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imagination | Flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en Espagne; Utopia, Atlantis, happy valley, millennium, fairyland; land of Prester John, kindgom of Micomicon; work of fiction; (novel); Arabian nights; le pot au lait; dream of Alnashar; (hope). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fairyland |
| English words defined with "fairyland": Elfland. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | So everything in Fairyland was in threes, you know, except the dwarfs. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fairyland (1958) Felix in Fairyland (1923) In Fairyland (1912) Fairyland (1978) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Fairyland" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Fairyland" is used about 36 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 75% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Noun (proper) | 25% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 36 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fairyland | 106 |
fairyland oakland | 18 |
child fairyland | 18 |
fairyland into peep | 7 |
fairyland park | 4 |
fairyland forest | 3 |
fairyland legend fairy | 3 |
fairyland legend | 3 |
fairyland osyrhia | 2 |
fairyland in oakland | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fairyland"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vendi i zanave, vend i magjishëm. (various references) | |
Arabic | موطن ساحر, عبقر أرض الجن. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | страна на феите, вълшебна страна. (various references) | |
Chinese | 仙境 . (various references) | |
Czech | pohádková zemì. (various references) | |
Finnish | satumaailma (wonderland), satumaa (wonderland). (various references) | |
French | royaume des fées. (various references) | |
German | märchenland (Wonderland). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עולם "פיות (fairydom). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tündérország (fairy-land, wonderland). (various references) | |
Italian | paese delle fate (Faerie). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 瑶台 (beautiful building ornamented with gems), フェーリング反応 (a feint, face, facial, fader, fail, fail-safe, failure, fair, fair catch, fair copy, fair play, fair sex, fairway, fairy, fairy tale, fake, fare, fear, feather, feather plane, feathercut, Fehling's reaction, phase, phaser, phasing, phasor), 仙郷 (enchanted land), 仙境 (enchanted land). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フェアリーランド , せ"きょう (enchanted land, progress of a battle, religious mission, temporary bridge between ships, war situation), よう い (beautiful building ornamented with gems, condition). (various references) | |
Manx | cheer ny mooinjer veggey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | airylandfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | produzido por magia (magical, magician). (various references) | |
Romanian | ţarã fermecatã, ţara zânelor, ţara basmelor. (various references) | |
Russian | сказочная страна (cloud-cuckoo-land, cloud-land, cloud-world, dreamland, dream-land, dreamworld), волшебная страна. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | čarobna zemlja. (various references) | |
Spanish | el país de las hadas. (various references) | |
Swedish | fantasivärld, älvornas rike. (various references) | |
Turkish | periler ülkesi (dreamland, faery, never-never, never-never land), masallar ülkesi. (various references) | |
Ukranian | казкова країна (cloud-land). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tiên giới, nơi tiên cảnh, chốn thiên tiên. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fairyland": fairylands. (additional references) | |
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"Fairyland" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dairyland, Faeryland, Fairlamb. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fairyland" (pronounced fe"rēla'nd) |
| 5 | -ē l a' n d | Fantasyland. |
| 4 | -l a' n d | Badland, cropland, dreamland, farmland, Fatherland, flatland, grassland, heartland, hinterland, homeland, inland, lowland, mainland, marshland, Midland, moorland, motherland, Northland, outland, overland, parkland, Southland, sunland, Timberland, wasteland, wetland, Wonderland, woodland. |
| 3 | -a' n d | ampersand, armband, backhand, bandstand, beforehand, broadband, contraband, farmhand, firebrand, forehand, freehand, grandstand, handstand, headband, longhand, newsstand, nightstand, quicksand, reprimand, seastrand, secondhand, shorthand, spaceband, stagehand, undermanned. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-f-i-l-n-r-y" | |
-2 letters: laniard, laniary, lanyard, nadiral. | |
-3 letters: afraid, aldrin, aridly, fairly, farina, narial, radial, radian. | |
-4 letters: aland, alary, aliya, daily, dairy, diary, dinar, drail, drain, drily, fairy, farad, filar, final, flair, frail, infra, inlay, laari, laird, lanai, lardy, liana, liard, lidar, lindy, lyard, nadir, naiad, naira, nidal, nyala, rainy, randy, ranid, riyal, yaird. | |
-5 letters: afar, airn, airy, alan, alar, alfa, alif, anal, anil, aria, arid, aril, aryl, ayin, darn, dial, dirl, dray, fail, fain, fair, fard, farl, fiar, fila, find, firn, flan, flay, fray, idly, idyl, inly, lady, laid, lain, lair, land, lard, lari, liar, liny, lira, nada, naif, nail, nard, nary, raia, raid, rail, rain, rand, rani, raya, rial, rind, rynd, yald, yard, yarn, yird. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-f-i-l-n-r-y" | |
+1 letter: fairylands. | |
+3 letters: deflationary. | |
+5 letters: faintheartedly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 69 72 79 6C 61 6E 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- .. .-. -.--. .-.. .- -. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01101001 01110010 01111001 01101100 01100001 01101110 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a i r y l a n d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0069 0072 0079 006C 0061 006E 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)406775849178678070 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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