Dictionary
Thesaurus
Encyclopedia
Translator
Web

cloud-cuckoo-land

 - 2 dictionary results

cloud-cuck⋅oo-land

[kloud-koo-koo-land, -kook-oo-]
–noun
an idealized, illusory domain of imagination; cloudland: the cloud-cuckoo-land of technicolor cartoon whimsy.

Origin:
1815–25; trans. of Gk Nephelokokkȳgía, the realm which separates the gods from mankind in Aristophanes' The Birds
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
Cite This Source Link To cloud-cuckoo-land
cloud-cuckoo-land

noun
an imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality 
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
Cite This Source
Search another word or see cloud-cuckoo-land on Thesaurus | Reference
FacebookTwitterFollow us: