English

Proper noun

Disneyland

1. The archetypical theme park, located in Anaheim, California.

Hypernyms

• (structurally) land

Translations

See also

• Disney
• Disneyworld
• Mickey Mouse

Noun

Disneyland ‎(plural Disneylands)

1. (informal, often derogatory) A place resembling the Disneyland theme park, often typified by a corporately-designed saccharine cheerfulness.
   • 1979, Myron Matlaw (ed.), American popular entertainment

     With its talking statuary, its enormous and elaborate monuments and museums, and its variety of daily shows, it has become a Disneyland of the dead...

   • 1988, The Last Temptation of Christ (in New York Magazine, volume 21, number 34, 29 August 1988)

     Certainly anyone devoted to maintaining Christ as a lacquered benevolent spirit in a Disneyland of happiness is not going to like this movie.

   • 2007, Valerie Easton, A pattern garden: the essential elements of garden making

     This approach can lead to a Disneyland of a garden that busily vies for attention with the view, bringing out the best in neither.