英和和英

名詞

wonderworld (複数形 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.