PETER PAN


Meaning of PETER PAN in English

a children’s play (1904) by J M Barrie . Peter Pan is a boy who lives in a magic place called Never Never Land where he never grows up. One night he visits three children in London and takes them to Never Never Land. They have a series of adventures with Peter, a fairy called Tinkerbell, a group of pirates and a crocodile. It is a very popular play, and is traditionally performed every Christmas in London. It was made into a successful Walt Disney film in 1953. It is so well known to most people that a person who seems never to grow any older is sometimes called a ‘Peter Pan’:

Still winning matches at 35, he’s the Peter Pan of the tennis world

See also Captain Hook .

Oxford guide to British and American culture English vocabulary.      Руководство по британской и американской культуре, Оксфордский английский словарь.