n.
An amusement park in which all the settings and attractions have a central theme, such as the world of the future.
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An amusement park in which all the settings and attractions have a central theme, such as the world of the future.
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1960s term for a type of park devoted to a theme, idea, or ideas, which might have some historical, fictional, or other core. It was invented by the Disney organization at Anaheim, CA, where traditional American
Other types of theme-park include the museums where old buildings are re-erected, or historical architecture is reconstructed, e.g. the Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Worcs. (founded 1967—where F.W.B. Charles played a key role), the beautiful Meiji-mura architectural museum, Inuyama, near Nagoya, Japan, and the earliest of them all (1890s), the museum at Skansen, near Stockholm, Sweden. Jellicoe's garden for the Moody Foundation, Galveston, TX (begun 1983), was conceived as a park explaining the landscape-history of the world and the role of plants in human life. Many other theme-parks have been, or are being proposed, with a considerable range of allusions.
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| WordNet: theme park |
The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
an amusement park that is organized around some theme (as the world of tomorrow)
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