wonderland

Everyday

1. A place full of wonderful, magical or beautiful things. tree →
2. Wonderland is the strange dream world Alice falls into down the rabbit hole in Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). tree →
3. A place that is very beautiful at a certain time, such as «a winter wonderland» when everything is covered in snow. tree →

In the lessons

In Alice, Wonderland is a place where nothing follows normal rules: drinks make you shrink, a cat grins and vanishes, and the Queen wants to cut off everyone's head. At the end Alice wakes up and it was a dream. In everyday life people use the word for a place that seems too good or strange to be real. Phrases: «winter wonderland», «a toy wonderland», «Alice in Wonderland».

Examples

• Alice fell down the rabbit hole into Wonderland. tree →
• After the snowstorm the garden was a winter wonderland. tree →
• The toy shop was a wonderland of lights and games. tree →
• In Wonderland, animals talk and argue with Alice. tree →
• The coral reef is an underwater wonderland of colour. tree →
• When Alice woke up, Wonderland was only a dream. tree →
• The book is often called «Alice in Wonderland» for short. tree →

Note

Write Wonderland with a capital W when it is Alice's world. Countable: a wonderland. The full title is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.