different between fairyland vs faerie

English

Etymology

fairy +? land

Noun

fairyland (countable and uncountable, plural fairylands)

1. The imaginary land or abode of fairies.
   • 2004, Algernon Blackwood, A Prisoner in Fairyland , Kessinger Publishing, page 174 [1]

     Not merely a foolish fairyland of make-believe and dragons and princesses imprisoned in animals, but a fairyland the whole world needs - the sympathy of sweet endeavour, love, gentleness and sacrifice for others.

2. Any forested place of great natural beauty.

Synonyms

• dreamworld

Translations

Adjective

fairyland (not comparable)

1. Having qualities ascribed to fairies and their realm; fanciful, delicate, surreal, or diminutive.

   The children built a fairyland cottage out of gingerbread, decorated with gumdrops and peppermint sticks.

References

• fairyland in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Alternative forms

• færie (archaic, nonstandard)

Etymology

From Old French faerie; re-introduced into English in deliberately archaising spelling in 1590 by Edmund Spenser in authoring the Faerie Queene.

Noun

faerie (countable and uncountable, plural faeries)

1. Archaic spelling of fairy.
2. Realm of the fays, fairyland.

References

• Faerie, in Compact Oxford English Dictionary.

Anagrams

• feriae

Old French

Alternative forms

• faierie

Etymology

fae +? -erie

Noun

faerie f

1. the sphere or realm of enchantment, magic or dream associated with the fae (fays)

Derived terms

• French: féerie
  • ? English: féerie
• ? Middle English: fairye
  • English: fairy, fairie, faerie, faery
  • Scots: fairy, faerie, faery