mythical place

/ˌmɪθəkəl pleɪs/

Definitions of mythical place

1. noun

   a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings
   synonyms: fictitious place, imaginary place

   types:

   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

   a place or condition of ideal happiness

   Hades, Hell, Scheol, infernal region, netherworld, underworld

   (religion) the world of the dead

   Hell, Inferno, infernal region, nether region, perdition, pit

   (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment

   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

   an imaginary place for lost or neglected things

   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

   Sion, Utopia, Zion

   an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal

   wonderland

   an imaginary realm of marvels or wonders

   Abraham's bosom, bosom of Abraham

   the place where the just enjoy the peace of heaven after death

   Celestial City, City of God, Heavenly City, Holy City

   phrases used to refer to Heaven

   Elysian Fields, Elysium

   (Greek mythology) the abode of the blessed after death

   Eden, Garden of Eden

   a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation; when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were driven from their paradise (the fall of man)

   Paradise

   (Christianity) the abode of righteous souls after death

   Promised Land

   the goal towards which Christians strive

   Valhalla, Walhalla

   (Norse mythology) the hall in which the souls of heros slain in battle were received by Odin

   Gehenna, Tartarus

   a place where the wicked are punished after death

   hellfire, red region

   a place of eternal fire envisaged as punishment for the damned

   type of:

   imagination, imaginativeness, vision

   the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses