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 spooky environs created by production designer Til Frohlich are the stuff nightmares are made of; the murky bathtub, moldering linens and secret compartments that go bump in the night.
    Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 2 May 2026
  • When the show picks up, Lorcan is experiencing a strange series of nightmares centered around a terrifying rabbit-faced man, a creature pulled from Celtic mythology known as a Pooka.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • The fictions of both films are factually contextualized from the start.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2026
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“Cloud-cuckoo-lands.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cloud-cuckoo-lands. Accessed 8 May. 2026.

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