playland
Americannoun
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an area used for recreation or amusement; playground or amusement park.
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a town or city that relies heavily on its tourist trade to bolster its economy.
Etymology
Origin of playland
Example Sentences
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As a drifter-janitor who fights possessed robotic animals at a Chuck E. Cheese-style playland in this action-horror mash-up, Cage doesn’t say a word.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2023
To do away with crime, corruption and homelessness and clean up the streets — just like he did in his idealized playland.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2022
Milne and Shepard, having survived the horrors of World War I battlefields, chose to turn sharply toward the warmth of an imaginary playland inspired by their own children’s stuffed toys.
From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2022
The New York of the New Yorker is a playland, no more substantial than the one that Mayor McCheese presides over at your local McDonald’s.
From Salon • Nov. 5, 2016
With 27 holes, a club-fitting center and acclaimed instructors, the place appears to be a golfer�s playland.
From Time Magazine Archive
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