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| mythical place - a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings | ||
| imaginary place, fictitious place | ||
| imaginativeness, imagination, vision the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be" | ||
| afterworld the place where you are after you die | ||
| annwfn, annwn (Welsh mythology) the other world; land of fairies | ||
| asgard (Norse mythology) the heavenly dwelling of the 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 | ||
| cloud-cuckoo-land an imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality | ||
| cockaigne (Middle Ages) an imaginary land of luxury and idleness | ||
| el dorado, eldorado an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought in South America by 16th-century explorers | ||
| faerie, faery, fairyland the enchanted realm of fairies | ||
| heaven the abode of God and the angels | ||
| elysium (Greek mythology) the abode of the blessed after death | ||
| netherworld, scheol, hades, infernal region, underworld, hell the criminal class | ||
| nether region, perdition, infernal region, inferno, hell, pit noisy and unrestrained mischief; "raising blazes" | ||
| 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 | ||
| limbo (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals) | ||
| limbo (theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals) | ||
| midgard (Norse mythology) the abode of humans in Norse mythology | ||
| dreamland, dreamworld, never-never land a pleasing country existing only in 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 | ||
| ruritania an imaginary kingdom in central Europe; often used as a scene for intrigue and romance | ||
| spirit world any imaginary place where spiritual beings (demons or fairies or angels or the like) abide; "science has emptied the spirit world of its former inhabitants" | ||
| sion, zion, utopia originally a stronghold captured by David (the 2nd king of the Israelites); above it was built a temple and later the name extended to the whole hill; finally it became a synonym for the city of Jerusalem; "the inhabitants of Jerusalem are personified as `the daughter of Zion'" | ||
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