fairy-land
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.05 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Dear Miss Woodhouse, how do you do?—Very well I thank you, quite well. This is meeting quite in fairy-land!—Such a transformation!—Must not compliment, I know—(eyeing Emma most complacently)—that would be rude—but upon my word, Miss Woodhouse, you do look—how do you like Jane’s hair?"
- "She was beautiful, and he said that he would love her always with a love unchangeable as were all things in fairy-land; […]"
- "We may add, and our author has knowledge of the fact, that not even the Germans, those masterly delineators and imaginators of fairy-land, have shown greater or more exquisite insight into the lives and ways of elfs and fays than that which was shown by George Cruikshank."
- "It is now becoming one of the best-known facts in the history of photography that the annual meeting of the Convention, wherever it is held, is the happiest place to enjoy talking shop in the world; it is a fairy-land of make-believe, and is not only harmless, but salutary."
Usage
Inflected Forms
fairy-lands (plural)