cloudland

English

Etymology

cloud + land

Noun

cloudland (plural cloudlands)

  1. fantasy land, dreamland
    • 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, Chapter 29
      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.
    • 2007, Matilda Betham-Edwards, In the Heart of the Vosges, BiblioBazaar, LLC, page 102
      Nothing can be more like a ride in cloudland than the drive from Pierrefitte to Luz and from Luz to Gavarnie.

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