Meanings
plural cloudlands
- countableuncountableDreamland, fantasy land.
Nothing can be more like a ride in cloudland than the drive from Pierrefitte to Luz and from Luz to Gavarnie.
2007, Matilda Betham-Edwards, In the Heart of the Vosges, BiblioBazaar, LLC, page 1022 more examples
Glittering castles in Spain were shaping themselves out of the mists and rainbows of her lively fancy; adventures wonderful and enthralling were happening to her in cloudland—adventures that always turned out triumphantly and never involved her in scrapes like those of actual life.
1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, chapter XXX, in Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLCWide awake, all at once, he was at the same time plunged even deeper into a cloudland of symbols to which he had no key.
1950, Mervyn Peake, chapter 29, in Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Translations
Hungarian álomvilág, meseország
- álomvilágdreamland, fantasy land
- meseországdreamland, fantasy land
Latin terra sonialis, terra imaginaria
- terra sonialisdreamland, fantasy land
- terra imaginariadreamland, fantasy land
Polish kraina utopii
- kraina utopiidreamland, fantasy land
Spanish tierra de fantasía
- tierra de fantasíadreamland, fantasy land
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