dreamworld

• dream-world, dream world

From dream +‎ world. Compare West Frisian dreamwrâld (“dreamworld”), Dutch droomwereld, dromenwereld (“dreamworld”), German Traumwelt (“dreamworld”), Danish drømmeverden (“dreamworld”), Swedish drömvärld (“dreamworld”).

dreamworld (plural dreamworlds)

1. An imaginary world, such as experienced while dreaming.
   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 358:

     At midnight they left the air-conditioned dream-world and entered the oven of the street.