[ourplace] cloudland Word of the Day

  • From: "Marty Rimpau" <mrimpau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2017 05:22:12 -0800

Dictionary.com Word Of The Day
Feb. 03, 2017
cloudland\KLOUD-land\noun
1. the sky.
2. a region of unreality, imagination, etc.; dreamland.
QuotesWhen the wind came it split the sky and shouldered the cloudland
left and right, unbarring great clear furnaces of rolling gold.
-- G. K. Chesterton, Manalive, 1912
  Origin of cloudlandCloudland entered English in the early 1800s.
Cloud-cuckoo-land is a related term that comes from Greek
Nephelokokkȳgía, the realm which separates the gods from mankind in
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