CLOUD-CUCKOO-LAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cloud-cuckoo-land mean? 

• CLOUD-CUCKOO-LAND (noun)
  The noun CLOUD-CUCKOO-LAND has 1 sense:

1. an imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality

  Familiarity information: CLOUD-CUCKOO-LAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOUD-CUCKOO-LAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("cloud-cuckoo-land" is a kind of...):

fictitious place; imaginary place; mythical place (a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings)