castle in the air

Questions about castle in the air

What does castle in the air mean?

castle in the air means "absentminded dreaming while awake".

What is another word for castle in the air?

Close synonyms include reverie, revery, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is castle in the air a common word?

castle in the air is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for castle in the air come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.