cloud-cuckoo-lands

Definition of cloud-cuckoo-landsnext
plural of cloud-cuckoo-land
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Noun
  • Moursi traces the notion of islands as utopias to Plato’s description of Atlantis, written around 360 BCE.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The fleeting economic miracle in Venezuela, once the preferred destination for those departing La Palma, excited the imaginations of those who had seen or lived in the concrete modernist utopias of the tropics.
    Javier Montes, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The nightmares stopped after he was released in March; the government had conceded that he and others had likely been arrested unlawfully.
    Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 13 May 2026
  • My green dreams were now caterpillar nightmares.
    Emily Bryn Williams, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • The curiosity, sensitivity, and imagination of children will always demand new and ambitious fictions.
    Mac Barnett, Longreads, 5 May 2026
  • Fascism spins the greatest fictions of all time—about race, about origins, about past and future glories—and people eat them up.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
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“Cloud-cuckoo-lands.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cloud-cuckoo-lands. Accessed 17 May. 2026.

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