cloud-cuckoo-landn.

Forms: Also cloud-cuckoo-town, etc. Frequently with capital initials.

Etymology: translating Greek Νεϕελοκοκκυγία ( < νεϕέλη cloud + κόκκυξ cuckoo), the name of the realm in Aristophanes's Birds (l. 819) built by the birds to separate the gods from humankind.

a. In translations of Aristophanes' word (see above).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > ideal place > [noun]

heaveneOE

land of behesta1200

Cockaigne?c1335

Fortunate Islands?a1475

eutopia1553

utopia1601

horny gate (also port)1605

nonsucha1618

Americaa1631

El Dorado1788

other world1804

Cockneyland1817

cloud-cuckoo-land1824

Fiddler's Green1825

dreamland1832

Neverland1892

never-never land1900

Big Rock Candy Mountain1917

brave new world1933

Xanadu1948

Disneyland1956

ecotopia1975

1824 H. F. Cary tr. Aristophanes Birds ii. i. 76 What shall our city's name be?.. Cuckoocloudland. Will that do?

1874 B. H. Kennedy tr. Aristophanes Birds ii. i. 76 Cloudcuckoo-borough.

b. A fanciful or ideal realm or domain. Also in various allusive phrases.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > realm of imagination > [noun] > imaginary place

fairyc1330

rumbelow?1515

Hogs Norton?1565

fairyland1600

wonderland1790

other world1804

dreamland1832

Fourth World1833

cloudland1846

Loamshire1859

looking-glass land1871

looking-glass world1871

under-land1874

cloud-world1884

Speewah1890

Ruritania1894

cloud-cuckoo-land1899

cuckoo-land1916

fantasy world1920

Squaresville1956

la-la land1979

1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. xxxi. 319 All his thinking processes fade off into the logic of Cloud Cuckoo Land.

1903 Daily Chron. 25 Sept. 3/7 Our new school of economists (sort of cloud-cuckoo-town).

1908 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Dec. 458/3 His ideal state is a true Cloud-Cuckoo-Town.

1920 A. S. Pringle-Pattison Idea of God 252 A cloud-cuckoo-land of subjective fancy.

1925 N. Mitchison (title) Cloud Cuckoo Land. A tale of Sparta.

1925 J. B. Cabell Beyond Life 30 Wycherley had the saving grace to present his men and women as trammelled by the social restrictions of Cloud-Cuckoo-Land alone.

1925 R. Graves Welchman's Hose 20 Kingfishers, when they die, To far Cloud-Cuckoo pastures fly.

1939 J. B. Priestley Let People Sing 390 Sir George Denberry-Baxter was now Governor-general of some distant dominion of Cloud-Cuckoodom.

1950 G. Barker News of World 17 Turn back to never-never Cloud-cuckoo, happy, far-off land.

1964 Economist 16 May 741/2 They weigh the evidence and give their judgment in what seems..a cloud~cuckooland.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	cloud-cuckoo-land
释义	cloud-cuckoo-landn. Forms: Also cloud-cuckoo-town, etc. Frequently with capital initials. Etymology: translating Greek Νεϕελοκοκκυγία ( < νεϕέλη cloud + κόκκυξ cuckoo), the name of the realm in Aristophanes's Birds (l. 819) built by the birds to separate the gods from humankind. a. In translations of Aristophanes' word (see above). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > ideal place > [noun] heaveneOE land of behesta1200 Cockaigne?c1335 Fortunate Islands?a1475 eutopia1553 utopia1601 horny gate (also port)1605 nonsucha1618 Americaa1631 El Dorado1788 other world1804 Cockneyland1817 cloud-cuckoo-land1824 Fiddler's Green1825 dreamland1832 Neverland1892 never-never land1900 Big Rock Candy Mountain1917 brave new world1933 Xanadu1948 Disneyland1956 ecotopia1975 1824 H. F. Cary tr. Aristophanes Birds ii. i. 76 What shall our city's name be?.. Cuckoocloudland. Will that do? 1874 B. H. Kennedy tr. Aristophanes Birds ii. i. 76 Cloudcuckoo-borough. b. A fanciful or ideal realm or domain. Also in various allusive phrases. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > realm of imagination > [noun] > imaginary place fairyc1330 rumbelow?1515 Hogs Norton?1565 fairyland1600 wonderland1790 other world1804 dreamland1832 Fourth World1833 cloudland1846 Loamshire1859 looking-glass land1871 looking-glass world1871 under-land1874 cloud-world1884 Speewah1890 Ruritania1894 cloud-cuckoo-land1899 cuckoo-land1916 fantasy world1920 Squaresville1956 la-la land1979 1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. xxxi. 319 All his thinking processes fade off into the logic of Cloud Cuckoo Land. 1903 Daily Chron. 25 Sept. 3/7 Our new school of economists (sort of cloud-cuckoo-town). 1908 Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Dec. 458/3 His ideal state is a true Cloud-Cuckoo-Town. 1920 A. S. Pringle-Pattison Idea of God 252 A cloud-cuckoo-land of subjective fancy. 1925 N. Mitchison (title) Cloud Cuckoo Land. A tale of Sparta. 1925 J. B. Cabell Beyond Life 30 Wycherley had the saving grace to present his men and women as trammelled by the social restrictions of Cloud-Cuckoo-Land alone. 1925 R. Graves Welchman's Hose 20 Kingfishers, when they die, To far Cloud-Cuckoo pastures fly. 1939 J. B. Priestley Let People Sing 390 Sir George Denberry-Baxter was now Governor-general of some distant dominion of Cloud-Cuckoodom. 1950 G. Barker News of World 17 Turn back to never-never Cloud-cuckoo, happy, far-off land. 1964 Economist 16 May 741/2 They weigh the evidence and give their judgment in what seems..a cloud~cuckooland. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1824
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