cloud-cuckoo-land

1. 1.

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

   Broaderimaginary place

Questions about cloud-cuckoo-land

What does cloud-cuckoo-land mean?

cloud-cuckoo-land means "an imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality".

How many syllables are in cloud-cuckoo-land?

cloud-cuckoo-land has 4 syllables and divides as cloud--cuc-koo--land under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is cloud-cuckoo-land a common word?

cloud-cuckoo-land 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.