Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pleasuredome

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.08 in modern English

Syllables: plea-sure-dome
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A place where one can relax, entertain or recreate.

Example Sentences

"Near-synonym: pleasuredom"
"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea."
"In Xanadu did Kublai Khan a pleasuredome erect / Moving on, keep moving on, yeah / […] We're a long way from home / Welcome to the pleasuredome"
"Then again, sampladelia may equally be a component of a Krokerite dystopia of "cold seduction": "a cool hallucinatory culture of special effects personalities moving at warp speed to nowhere," a virtual-reality pleasuredome where the self is a will-o'-the-wisp buffeted by "ceaseless movement in the eddies of cultural matter.""
"When Michael agreed to be interviewed by Oprah Winfrey in 1993, more than a hundred million people around the world became privy to the fantasy of Neverland, his California pleasuredome."
"The noise level thudded beyond deemed acceptability for a construction site, let alone a pleasuredome."

Etymology

From pleasure + dome, from the opening lines of Kubla Khan (completed 1797; published 1816) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea."

Inflected Forms

pleasuredomes (plural) pleasure dome (alternative) pleasure-dome (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

den of iniquity

Synonyms

pleasure palace Xanadu Shangri-La paradise pleasuredom

Questions

What does pleasuredome mean?: A place where one can relax, entertain or recreate.
Where does pleasuredome come from?: From pleasure + dome, from the opening lines of Kubla Khan (completed 1797; published 1816) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea."

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