Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A castle in the air; a day-dream; a visionary scheme. See castle.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Emperor of China, his room was ornamented with a picture of Confucius, before which he burned scented wood; and hanging over it was an air-castle, with the motto, "God is Love."
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Many an air-castle did we rear that night which the lapse of years have laid in the dust.
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The college girl cannot marry at this impulsive, air-castle age.
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Yet I can not quite agree that the habit of air-castle building is pernicious.
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She established that fact to her own satisfaction ere long, although she was no great arithmetician, and she sighed as she built and demolished an air-castle in her own mind.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.
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If he was building an air-castle he has since placed a firm foundation under it.
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For so far has his air-castle mounted that, were Molly to inhabit a hovel, that hovel to him would be home.
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She stood there wide-eyed and silent among the ruins of her little air-castle.
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And before the aprons were done, Margarita had a fine air-castle up: herself and Alessandro married, a nice little house, children playing in the sunshine below the artichoke-patch, she herself still working for the Señora.
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During my long life I have seen many a day-dream and many an air-castle go the way of Santa Claus and the wonderful "Lamp of Aladdin."
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