in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, a flying island inhabited by impractical, visionary philosophers who engage in various absurd activities
Derived forms
Laputan (Laˈputan)
adjective, noun
Laputa in American English
(ləˈpjuːtə)
noun
an imaginary flying island in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, the inhabitants of which engaged in a variety of ridiculous projects and pseudoscientific experiments