English Explanatory Dictionary

pleasuredome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A place where one can relax, entertain or recreate.

Word forms

pleasuredome pleasuredomes pleasure dome pleasure-dome

Etymology

From pleasure + dome, from the opening lines of Kubla Khan (completed 1797; published 1816) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea."

Synonyms

pleasure palace Xanadu Shangri-La paradise pleasuredom
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