Cloudland

noun

noun ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Dreamland, fantasy land.

    "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."

Example

More examples

"She had an uncomfortable feeling that while this odd child's body might be there at the table her spirit was far away in some remote airy cloudland, borne aloft on the wings of imagination."

Etymology

From cloud + land.

Related phrases

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