cloudland

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noun

Dreamland, fantasy land.

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Meanings

nouncloudland (countable and uncountable, plural cloudlands)

plural cloudlands

  1. 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 102
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    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, →OCLC

    Wide 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

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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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