Noun: dreamworld
| Singular | dreamworld |
| Plural | dreamworlds |
Sample Sentences
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At midnight they left the air-conditioned dream-world and entered the oven of the street. [1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 358:]
Nouns inflected like dreamworld
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From dream + world. Compare West Frisian dreamwrâld (“dreamworld”), Dutch droomwereld, dromenwereld (“dreamworld”), German Traumwelt (“dreamworld”), Danish drømmeverden (“dreamworld”), Swedish drömvärld (“dreamworld”). See: Dutch Nouns '
droomwereld', German Nouns '
Traumwelt', Danish Nouns '
drømmeverden', Swedish Nouns '
drömvärld'.