lost world
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.27 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An unknown world out of time, place, or both, the topic of a subgenre of fantasy or science fiction.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lost, world.
Example Sentences
- "Developed by such popular writers as Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Abraham Merrit, the lost world novel presents small, encapsulated worlds, inhabited by the living fossils of some prehistoric culture, often with dinosaurs or other extinct beasts thrown in for good measure."
- "What I’m describing, of course, is a lost world, glimpsed only through history books or the memories of old people."
Inflected Forms
lost worlds (plural)