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castles in Spain

castles in Spain noun: synonym of castle in the air.

Noun

castles in Spain pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Synonym of castle in the air.
    • Glittering castles in Spain were shaping themselves out of the mists and rainbows of her lively fancy; adventures wonderful and enthralling were happening to her in cloudland—adventures that always turned out triumphantly and never involved her in scrapes like those of actual life.1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, chapter XXX, in Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC
    • The show must go on / And time slipped away / Before you could build any castles in Spain / The chance had gone by1977, “Day After Day (The Show Must Go On)”, in I Robot, performed by The Alan Parsons Project

Synonyms of castles in Spain

Origin of castles in Spain

Calque of French châteaux en Espagne, recorded in the Roman de la Rose in the 13th century and translated into English around 1365.

Questions about castles in Spain

What does castles in Spain mean?
Castles in Spain means synonym of castle in the air.
What part of speech is castles in Spain?
Castles in Spain is a noun.

Words near castles in Spain in the dictionary

  1. Castlerigg
  2. Castlerock
  3. castlers
  4. castlery
  5. castles
  6. castles in Spain
  7. castles in the air
  8. castles in the skies
  9. castles long
  10. castles of love
  11. castles short

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