Laputa

[ luh-pyoo-tuh ]

noun

1. an imaginary flying island in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, the inhabitants of which engaged in a variety of ridiculous projects and pseudoscientific experiments.

Other Words From

• La·putan adjective noun

Example Sentences

I need scarcely say not into two equal parts; no one out of the island of Laputa could do that.

From Project Gutenberg

His third voyage takes him to Laputa, where he sees the philosophers; and on the fourth he visits the land of the Houyhnhnms.

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Orivie smiled indulgently as I explained to him that that hole was made by sea-currents when Laputa was under the ocean.

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Was it a banquet with joints cut Laputa-like, after some fashion of concepts, or syllogistic figures?

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Wonder if she waits on lodgers—if so, my dinners will be rather like the banquet Gulliver had at Laputa.

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