skylands

Noun

skyland (plural skylands)

1. (poetic) The sky.
   • Look to the woodlands where the doves / Crowd with their murmurs green alcoves; / Look to the skylands where the clouds / Mantle the East with their glory-shrouds.1857, J[ames] J[ohn] G[arth] W[ilkinson], “Turner: Painter. His State.”, in Improvisations from the Spirit, London: W. White, […]; Manchester: Dunnill and Palmer, →OCLC, page 146
2. A mythical abode of gods or spirits in the sky; a heaven.
   • “How, how, sister,” greeted Keyahanhi, recalled from the skylands by her welcome coming.1907, Frank Welles Calkins, The Wooing of Tokala: An Intimate Tale of the Wild Life of the American Indian Drawn from Camp and Trail, New York, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.; Toronto, Ont.: Fleming H. Revell...
3. A land above the sky, such as a floating city or another planet.
   • She then went to Miss Green’s house who, when she heard the sound of the six pipe flute, expected to see her husband return from the skyland. She opened the door. Instead, it was the tiger demon who touched the hem of her skirt causing her to fall down in a dead faint.1967, Collected Papers in Highway Salvage Archaeology, 1972-74, Department of Anthropology, University of Montana, →ISBN, page 55

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