wonderworld

English

Etymology

From wonder +‎ world; compare the coincidentally equivalently formed Old English wundorworuld (“wonderful world”).

Noun

wonderworld (plural wonderworlds)

1. A place full of delights or marvels.
   • 1864, The Spiritual Magazine, volumes 5-6‎^[1], page 279:

     What indeed, is every—the commonest phenomenon but a wonder and a mystery;—every flower a riddle; every blade of grass an open secret; every mite that glistens in the sunbeam a point from which the universe opens outward? This world is no less a mystery and a wonder-world than the world beyond, and were it not for our close familiarity with it, by which our sense is blunted we should at once perceive it to be no less so.

   • 1983, David Quentin Voigt, American Baseball: From Postwar Expansion to the Electronic Age:

     In new suburban wonderworlds, psychic and social tensions challenged marital togetherness, prompting a new generation of muckrakers to expose the harried lives of affluent Americans.

   • 1996 November 12, Weekly World News, volume 18, number 7, page 18:

     Your child dives into the deep sea and meets a wonderworld of strange creatures!

   • 2003, Holly Hughes, Best Food Writing 2003, page 181:

     When I finally took a trip to Marcoland, or to one outpost of his kingdom anyway, a wonderworld in Mayfair called Mirabelle, I found a fantasy of '50s posh, with neither wild attitude nor blood sausage in sight.

   • 2007, Natalie Robins, Steven M. L. Aronson, Savage Grace, page 164:

     I spent a lot of time at the Ballston Beach parking lot with him, blocking off large sections and flooding them with water from his house, making vast, swamp wonderworlds between the parked cars.

Synonyms

• wonderland