Neverland
/ˈnɛvərˌlænd/noun
A fictional place of perpetual childhood, most famously the magical island in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan.
Did you know?Neverland was coined by J. M. Barrie for Peter Pan’s island, but the phrase works like a spell: a place defined by what can never happen, never age, never end.
Etymological Timeline
Old English
OE
nǣfre
“never; at no time”
Old English
OE
land
“land; ground; territory”
20th Century
English
never land
“a named or imagined place that does not exist in ordinary reality”
1904
English
Neverland
“J. M. Barrie's fictional island in Peter Pan”
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