Cloud Cuckoo Land



Cloud Cuckoo Land

A nonexistent place of perfection, a utopia. This phrase comes from The Birds by the Greek dramatist Aristophanes, in which the birds decide to build a perfect city called Cloud Cuckoo City. Over the years “City” became “Land.”
See also: cloud, cuckoo, land

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Nicholeni-KOLEnglish
Theokleia-Ancient Greek
FerencFE-rentsHungarian
Iman-Arabic, Persian, Indonesian
OswaldAHZ-wawld (English), AWS-vahlt (German)English, German, Anglo-Saxon
Jeannie['dʒi:ni]