What does wonderland mean?
Word: Wonderland
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Wonderland means an imaginary land full of wonderful and strange things, or a real place that is very beautiful and exciting.
Synonyms: paradise
How do you spell wonderland?
Syllables: won - der - land
Tricky part: Wonderland is one closed word, with no space or hyphen between its two parts. The middle is -der, not -dar, and the final d is easy to drop.
Watch out for: wonderlan, wondarland, wonderlend
Memory tip: Picture a land that fills you with wonder, then glue the two words together with no gap.
Wonderland in a sentence
Example 1: After the first snowfall, Gulmarg looked like a white wonderland.
Example 2: The toy shop was a wonderland of trains, kites and puppets.
Example 3: Oscar's dream took him to a wonderland where cats could talk.
Fun Fact
Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, published in 1865, made the word famous around the world.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the correctly spelt compound word:
a) moonlite
b) rainbowe
c) playgrund
d) wonderland
Show answer
d) wonderland. Playground, moonlight and rainbow are the right spellings of the other three.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
lnrdowenad
a) wondering
b) wonderland
c) wonderful
d) woodland
Show answer
b) wonderland. Build it from wonder and land: the letters split cleanly into those two words.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
Our school hall turned into a winter wonderland with paper snowflakes and glitering lanterns.
a) lanterns
b) glitering
c) school
d) wonderland
Show answer
b) glitering. Glittering keeps the double t of glitter before -ing.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word: wonderland
a) mainland
b) wasteland
c) farmland
d) fairyland
Show answer
d) fairyland. A fairyland, like a wonderland, is a magical place full of wonders.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A wonderland is a place that is ____.
a) plain and rather dull
b) packed with magical surprises
c) quiet and very ordinary
d) crowded and noisy
Show answer
b) packed with magical surprises
2. Which place could truly be called a wonderland?
a) a car park full of parked cars
b) a garden lit with lanterns and fountains
c) a road blocked by heavy traffic
d) a storeroom packed with old boxes
Show answer
b) a garden lit with lanterns and fountains
