dream worldn.
/ˈdriːm ˌwəːld/, U.S. /ˈdrim ˌwərld/ An imagined or invented place or state of existence; a fantasy world. Also: the place seen or visited in dreams; the realm of dreams. Cf. dreamland n.
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dream world1817
dreamland1826
dreamscape1967
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 65 The hypothesis..removes all reality and immediateness of perception, and places us in a dream-world of phantoms and spectres.
1885 Ld. Tennyson Anc. Sage x But thou be wise in this dream-world of ours.
1943 Gen 16 Jan. 30/1 He lives in a dream-world.
1958 Economist 15 Nov. 579/2 The fantasy life portrayed [in certain children's comics] is simply a lead-in to the more elaborate and still more depressing dreamworld of the women's magazines.
1992 R. Advani in First Fictions Introd. 11 16 The absolute philosophical disjunction between my dream world..and reality.
2001 Sun 27 Jan. (TV Mag.) 39/3 A group of teenagers fights a vicious killer in a surreal dream world.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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