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disneyland

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Disneyland Park , originally Disneyland , is the first of two theme parks built at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California , opened on July 17, 1955. It is the only theme park designed and built under the direct supervision of Walt Disney . It was ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in figurative sense of "land of make-believe" first recorded 1956, from U.S. entertainment park (opened in 1955) created by cartoonist Walter E. Disney (1901-1966).

Usage examples of disneyland.

The splendors of Disneyland, the excesses of Jim and Tammy, the platitudinous certitudes of Reagan -- none of these can be said to supplement a lack, or to conceal and compensate for some hidden want.

Confidentially known in Magnum House as "The Nursery," the apartment of Bruce Parry and his alingual consort is an indulgent, eventempered Disneyland of sweets, crackers, and party games.

Reno is a cross between Disneyland and Gomorrah -- a living shrine to every obsessive-compulsive character disorder known to Homo americanus.

They come in from Burbclaves all over the area in their four-wheel-drive trucks and tear across the open ground, slicing long curling gashes into the clay cap that was placed on the really bad parts to prevent windblown asbestos from blizzarding down over Disneyland.

They come in from Burbclaves all over the area in their four-wheel-drive trucks and tear across the open ground, slicinglong curling gashes into the claycap that was placed on the really bad parts to prevent windblown asbestos from blizzarding down over Disneyland.

They come in from Burbclaves all over the area in their four-wheel-drive trucks and tear across the open ground, slicing long curling gashes into the claycap that was placed on the really bad parts to prevent windblown asbestos from blizzarding down over Disneyland.

Here on the perimeter of a respectable residential neighborhood in Anaheim, the home of Disneyland, scenes from A Clockwork Orange weren't reenacted every day.

Disneyland doesn't serve the purposes of deterrence and dissuasion, as Baudrillard quaintly imagines.

Within seconds, a roasting wind blew through Garden Grove and Anaheim and Lakewood, turning Disneyland to fiery wreckage, melting the dummies in the Hollywood Wax Museum, melting human beings, too.

I nearly wrecked the car on a stretch of overpass near Disneyland, when the road fanned out like an origami trick and left me swerving through a dozen minilanes of whizzing chrome tear-drops with shark fins.

I had to give her a brief explanation of the English system of weights and measures as used in the West Texas disneyland.

Once they had reached it and found that it was not equipped with pink unicorns, cotton candy vendors, teen idol bands, or fluorescent green water slides, they lost interest and began to gravitate toward the house-which in and of itself was far from Disneyland, but in which a practiced and assertive user like Elizabeth could find a few consolatory nuggets, such as a full-time kitchen staff, trained in (among many other, completely useless skills) the preparation of hot chocolate.

With immaculate grounds, re-creations of famous churches, and burial areas with names like Slumberland, Vale of Memory, and Whispering Pines, I have always thought of it as a kind of Disneyland of the Dead.