pleasuredome
التعريفات والمعاني
== English ==
=== Alternative forms ===
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."
=== Noun ===
pleasuredome (plural pleasuredomes)
A place where one can relax, entertain or recreate.
Synonyms: pleasure palace, Xanadu, Shangri-La, paradise
Coordinate term: den of iniquity (with connotations of coinstantiation)
Near-synonym: pleasuredom