A.Word.A.Day--never-never land

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Sep 15, 2010

This week's theme
Fabled lands

This week's words
camelot
hades
never-never land

Peter Pan in Never Never Land
Illustration from the book Peter and Wendy, 1911

Artist: Francis Donkin

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A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

never-never land

PRONUNCIATION:

(NEV-uhr-NEV-uhr land)

MEANING:

noun: An idealized imaginary place where everything is perfect.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Never Never Land in J.M. Barrie's play Peter Pan (1904).

USAGE:

"The movie Alamar comes perilously close to turning into an escapist fantasy of abandoning civilization for never-never land."
Stephen Holden; A Boy's Slice of Paradise Is Time Alone With Dad; The New York Times; Jul 14, 2010.

Explore "never-never land" in the Visual Thesaurus.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

Be good and you will be lonesome. -Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)

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