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cloudcuckooland

cloudcuckooland is the alternative spelling of cloud-cuckoo-land.

Meaning of cloud-cuckoo-land

Noun

cloud-cuckoo-land (uncountable)

  1. An imaginary place where silly or unrealistic people metaphorically reside.
    • That glabrous dome that lifts itself so grand, / There in the marish, is the omphalos, / The navel, umbo, middle, central boss / Of the unique, sole, true Cloud-Cuckoo Land.1916, Aldous Huxley, “The Walk”, in The Burning Wheel

Words formed from cloudcuckooland

Questions about cloudcuckooland

What is cloudcuckooland the alternative spelling of?
Cloudcuckooland is the alternative spelling of cloud-cuckoo-land.

Words near cloudcuckooland in the dictionary

  1. cloudbusts
  2. cloudcapt
  3. cloudcast
  4. cloudcover
  5. cloudcovers
  6. cloudcuckooland
  7. Cloudcuckoolander
  8. Cloudcuckoolanders
  9. clouded
  10. clouded leopard
  11. clouded leopards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cloudcuckooland (page history and authors); cloud-cuckoo-land (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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