cloudland

noun

cloudland

noun

Etymology From cloud + land.

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.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:
1 more example
  • 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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