disneyland
/ˈdɪz.niˌlænd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.48 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
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.
noun
A place resembling the Disneyland theme park, often typified by a corporately-designed cheerfulness.
Derogatory; Informal
Example Sentences
- "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."
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.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈdɪz.niˌlænd/
- British English: /ˈdɪz.niːˌlænd/