cloudlandn.
/ˈklaʊdland/, U.S. /ˈklaʊdˌlænd/ poetic and rhetorical.
1. The region of clouds; a ‘landscape’ of clouds.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > [noun] > region or scene of clouds
cloudland1817
cloudscape1868
1817 S. T. Coleridge Fancy in Nubibus in Sibylline Leaves Go From mount to mount through Cloudland.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. Prel. 17 Such cloudlands, such sunrises, such sunsets as can be seen nowhere else.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 Sept. 5/2 Breakneck adventures into ‘Cloudland’ [in balloons].
2. figurative. A region of fancy, myth, or unreality.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > realm of imagination > [noun] > imaginary place
fairyc1330
rumbelow?1515
Hogs Norton?1565
fairyland1600
wonderland1790
other world1804
dreamland1832
Fourth World1833
cloudland1846
Loamshire1859
looking-glass land1871
looking-glass world1871
under-land1874
cloud-world1884
Speewah1890
Ruritania1894
cloud-cuckoo-land1899
cuckoo-land1916
fantasy world1920
Squaresville1956
la-la land1979
1846 G. H. Lewes Biogr. Hist. Philos. IV. 203 A yawning gulf of scepticism, or a baseless cloud-land of Idealism.
1865 F. Parkman Champlain i, in Pioneers of France in New World 170 To leave this cloudland of tradition, and approach the confines of recorded history.
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