Arcadia
an imaginary place where people have a simple pleasant life in the countryside
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Imaginary places and specific places in stories
the Bates Motel
the motel in the film Psycho, where strange and frightening things happen. People sometimes say that a strange hotel is ‘like the Bates Motel’.
Camelot
in old stories, the place in southwest England where King Arthur lived with his knights
El Dorado
an imaginary place where people can find a lot of money and valuable things
Hades
the place where the spirits of dead people go, according to ancient Greek stories
ley line
noun
an imaginary line connecting two places or buildings, that some people believe has magic powers
never-never land
noun
an imaginary place where everything happens exactly as you would like it to happen
Shangri La
an imaginary distant place where everything is beautiful and peaceful
St Trinian’s
an imaginary school for girls where the students behaved badly. It was the subject of several British films in the 1960s.
-ville
suffix
used in imaginary place names for referring to a place or situation of a particular type
vocal fry
a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence
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dray
a type of cart pulled by a horse and used in the past for carrying barrels of beer
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conflict mineral
a mineral which is mined in a place where there is armed conflict, and sold to help pay for weapons
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