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Answer for the clue "The enchanted realm of fairies ", 9 letters:
fairyland

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Word definitions for fairyland in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also fairy-land , 1580s, from fairy + land (n.). Earlier simply Faerie (c.1300).

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fairyland is the land or home of the fairies. Fairyland or Fairy Land may also refer to:

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Mitford's downtown at Christmas is a fairyland . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I had always pictured snow as clean and beautiful, stretched out over acres of fairyland . ▪ It has a magic sound to a voter, just like fairyland ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fairyland \Fair"y*land`\n. The imaginary land or abode of fairies.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality) [syn: fantasy world , phantasy world ] the enchanted realm of fairies [syn: faerie , faery ]

Usage examples of fairyland.

Vivid orchids and wonderful colored lichens smoldered upon the swarthy tree-trunks and where a wandering shaft of light fell full upon the golden allamanda, the scarlet star-clusters of the tacsonia, or the rich deep blue of ipomaea, the effect was as a dream of fairyland.

Of course, I am always wishing for you, but I began to wish the hardest just as we came into this green, brackeny, fairyland of Surrey.

Among the deep blue forests he was still in Fairyland, but at Mouchard the scenery was already changing, and by the time Dole was reached it had completely changed.

Their plans and schemes netted his feet in fairyland just as surely as the weight of their little warm, soft bodies fastened him to the boulder where he sat.

Most of England had been transformed into a winter fairyland that year, and Coltrane House, a magnificent estate located in Lincolnshire, resembled a Christmas package wrapped up in new-fallen snow.

The spectacle gave one an idea of fairyland, but then all Japan does that.

So he resolved to do better on ultracold Jonah 12, where lakes of liquid methane surrounded by icebergs of frozen ammonia gave the planetoid a fairyland appearance.

Nearby other orchids towered, creating the usual varicoloured fairyland.

And the talks with Minks were about--well, he hardly knew what, but they all played round this map of fairyland he sought to reduce to the scale of everyday life.

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Ringed by the puce and emerald growths was a group of spiraloids of cream dotted with flecks of brown and topaz, the whole cluster seeming to be the towers of some fairyland castle.

A film of reflected street-lighting shimmered over the whole scene, closing the eyes of modern Cairenes to the wonder of the stars but at the same time creating the hallucination of a fairyland illuminated in greens and reds and blues and sulphurous yellows.

The Crabapple Blossoms had by now surely perished in the Elfin Marches, or else vanished for ever into Fairyland.

Later in the day the sun might manage to burn off the haze, but right now Elizabeth stood on the lakefront and felt as if she had stumbled on some fairyland: mists floated over the surface of the water so that the island disappeared and reappeared, in what seemed to be an almost willful manner.

Soon the afterglow came on, and before it faded a big half-moon hung out of the heavens, shining through the silver blue foliage of the pines on the frigid background of snow, and turning the whole into fairyland.