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cloudland

[ kloud-land ]

/ ˈklaʊdˌlænd /

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noun

the sky.

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

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Origin of cloudland

First recorded in 1810–20; cloud + -land

Words nearby cloudland

clouded leopard, clouded yellow, cloud eggs, cloud forest, cloud grass, cloudland, cloud layer, cloudless, cloudlet, cloud nine, cloud over

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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 Kempton-Wace Letters|Jack London
The fleecy cloudland which seemed to lie before us, as we looked away from Pueblo, was resolving itself into savage alps.
Hesperothen; Notes from the West, Vol. II (of 2)|W. H. Russell
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