Cockaigne

English

Pieter Brueghel the Elder, The Land of Cockaigne, 1567

Alternative forms

Etymology

from Old French Cocaigne, of obscure origin.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kɒˈkeɪn/

Proper noun

Cockaigne

(mediaeval folklore) A land of plenty, luxury and idleness.
Synonyms: land of plenty, lubberland

Coordinate term: Arcadia

Hypernym: utopia
- 2017, Rutger Bregman, chapter 1, in Elizabeth Manton, transl., Utopia for Realists, Kindle edition, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 3:
  In Cockaigne, the Land of Plenty, people never argued. Instead, they partied, they danced, they drank, and they slept around.

Translations

mythical land

Danish: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: Luilekkerland (nl) n
Finnish: Laiskurila
French: cocagne (fr) f, pays de cocagne (fr) m
German: Schlaraffenland (de) n
Italian: cuccagna (it) f, paese della cuccagna m

Polish: please add this translation if you can
Portuguese: Cucanha f
Russian: please add this translation if you can
Serbo-Croatian: Dembelija
Spanish: país de Cucaña m
Swedish: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

Cockaigne on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

“Cockaigne” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

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