Disneyland
proper nounnounattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈdɪz.niːˌlænd//
- United States//ˈdɪz.niˌlænd//
The archetypical theme park, located in Anaheim, California. Other Disneyland theme parks exist in other cities such as Chessy (Seine-et-Marne, France), Tokyo, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.
proper noun
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The archetypical theme park, located in Anaheim, California. Other Disneyland theme parks exist in other cities such as Chessy (Seine-et-Marne, France), Tokyo, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.
Etymology
Etymology tree English Disney Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Germanic *landą Proto-West Germanic *land Old English land Middle English lond English land English -land English Disneyland From Disney + -land.
noun
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informalA place resembling the Disneyland theme park, often typified by a corporately-designed cheerfulness.
With its talking statuary, its enormous and elaborate monuments and museums, and its variety of daily shows, it has become a Disneyland of the dead...
Certainly anyone devoted to maintaining Christ as a lacquered benevolent spirit in a Disneyland of happiness is not going to like this movie.
This approach can lead to a Disneyland of a garden that busily vies for attention with the view, bringing out the best in neither.
But there is another future that these statistics and our nostalgic reaction to them might produce: the research library as a Disneyland of books, with banker’s lamps and never-cracked spines providing the suggestion of, but not the true interaction with, knowledge old and new.
Forms
- plural
- Disneylands
Disneyland · The archetypical theme park, located in Anaheim, California. Other Disneyland theme parks exist in other cities such as Chessy (Seine-et-Marne,…
disobey · To refuse or (intentionally) fail to adhere to (a rule) or to…disorder · Absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly…disorderly · Not in order; marked by disorder or disarray.