cloudland

[ kloud-land ]
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noun
  1. the sky.

  2. a region of unreality, imagination, etc.; dreamland.

Origin of cloudland

1
First recorded in 1810–20; cloud + -land

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How to use cloudland in a sentence

  • I looked down upon a real world; you were caught up in a beautiful cloudland and shut away from me.

  • The fleecy cloudland which seemed to lie before us, as we looked away from Pueblo, was resolving itself into savage alps.

  • The hidden sun made the haze faintly luminous about this wandering flock of cloudland.

    Virginia: The Old Dominion | Frank W. Hutchins and Cortelle Hutchins
  • But no—a little later, after we had reached the farm, we saw that the elfs of cloudland were still at play.

    Shandygaff | Christopher Morley
  • In the west was a steep range of cloudland rising from the sea, and against it was inclined the flame of a rainbow.

    The Sea and the Jungle | H. M. Tomlinson