English > mythical place: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition| Meaning | A place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings. |
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| Synonyms | imaginary place, fictitious place |
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| Narrower | Annwfn, Annwn | (Welsh mythology) the other world |
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| Asgard | (Norse mythology) the heavenly / heavenly dwelling of the Norse / Norse gods (the Aesir) and slain war heroes |
| Atlantis | According to legend, an island in the Atlantic Ocean that Plato said was swallowed by an earthquake |
| Brobdingnag | A land imagined by Jonathan Swift where everything was enormous |
| Cockaigne | (Middle Ages) an imaginary land of luxury and idleness |
| El Dorado, eldorado | An imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity |
| Elysium | A place or condition of ideal happiness |
| Heaven | The abode of God and the angels |
| Hell, perdition, Inferno, infernal region, nether region, pit | (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil |
| Hell, Hades, infernal region, netherworld, Scheol, underworld | (religion) the world of the dead |
| Houyhnhnms | A land imagined by Jonathan Swift where intelligent horses ruled the Yahoos |
| Laputa | A land imagined by Jonathan Swift where impractical projects were pursued and practical projects neglected |
| Lilliput | A land imagined by Jonathan Swift that was inhabited by tiny people |
| Midgard | (Norse mythology) the abode of humans in Norse mythology |
| Ruritania | An imaginary kingdom in central Europe |
| Utopia, Zion, Sion | An imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal |
| afterworld | The place where you are after you die |
| cloud-cuckoo-land | An imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality |
| fairyland, faerie, faery | The enchanted realm of fairies |
| limbo | (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals) |
| limbo | An imaginary place for lost or neglected things |
| never-never land, dreamland, dreamworld | A pleasing country existing only in dreams / dreams or imagination |
| purgatory | (theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins |
| spirit world | Any imaginary place where spiritual beings (demons or fairies or angels or the like) abide |
| wonderland | An imaginary realm of marvels or wonders |
| Broader | imagination, imaginativeness, vision | The formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses |
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| Spanish | lugar ficticio, lugar imagianario, lugar mítico |
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| Catalan | lloc imaginari |
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