neverland

English

Etymology

From Never +‎ land. The term was most famously used in J.M. Barrie's Book, Peter Pan, as the name of the fictional island that the Darling children visit with the title character. Compare Utopia, which is semantically Ancient Greek οὐ (ou, “not, no”) +‎ τόπος (tópos, “place, region”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

neverland (plural neverlands)

An ideal or imaginary place; a dreamworld.

Translations

an ideal or imaginary place

Chinese: 烏有鄉 / 乌有乡
Danish: Ønskeøen c (Peter Pan)
Esperanto: neniamlando
French: pays imaginaire (fr) m
German: Nimmerland n
Greek: χώρα του ποτέ f (chóra tou poté)
Hungarian: sohaország
Italian: isola che non c'è
Latin: insula imaginaria f, terra imaginaria
Macedonian: недојдија f (nedojdija)
Portuguese: terra do nunca f
Russian: нетла́ндия f (netlándija), небыля́ндия (nebyljándija)