cloudland en · NOUN
Etymology
From cloud + land.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) Dreamland, 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: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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| cloudlands | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Relateds
head in the clouds · cloud-headed · on cloud nine
Translations (6)
es tierra de fantasía (dreamland, fantasy land) · hu meseország (dreamland, fantasy land) · la terra sonialis (dreamland, fantasy land) · pl kraina utopii (dreamland, fantasy land) · hu álomvilág (dreamland, fantasy land) · la terra imaginaria (dreamland, fantasy land)