Synonyms for air castle


Grammar : Noun

Top 10 synonyms for air castle Other synonyms for the word air castle

Définition of air castle

  • As in pipe dream : noun unrealistic hope
  • As in castle in the air : noun wishful thinking
  • As in pie in the sky : noun fantastical wish
  • As in fantasy : noun imagination, dream
Example sentences :
  • It was not easy to take up the old routine and forget the air castle.
  • Extract from : « Saxe Holm's Stories » by Helen Hunt Jackson
  • All daydreaming builds this air castle; all ambition has this as its goal.
  • Extract from : « The Nervous Housewife » by Abraham Myerson
  • "I should like to be the queen of something more substantial than an air castle," she replied laughingly.
  • Extract from : « A Fair Mystery » by Bertha M. Clay
  • This was enough to cause nearly every one to look upon it as a bubble or air castle.
  • Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement No. 275 » by Various
  • Moreover, to teach school had long been her secret ambition, the solid foundation of many an air castle.
  • Extract from : « Rim o' the World » by B. M. Bower
  • But, if you value your peace of mind, do not build too gorgeous an air castle on the foundation of this printed thing.
  • Extract from : « The Fiction Factory » by John Milton Edwards
  • You are not talking airship now, Stanny; it's an air castle you have in mind.
  • Extract from : « Our Young Aeroplane Scouts in Germany » by Horace Porter
  • The dreamer of the future will not dare to build an air castle without at least an option on the site.
  • Extract from : « Major Prophets of To-Day » by Edwin E. Slosson
  • He passes to-day in building an air castle for to-morrow, or in writing yesterday's elegy.
  • Extract from : « An English Grammar » by W. M. Baskervill and J. W. Sewell
  • Peter's heart fell at this, for he had a half hope that he could yet bring himself to demolish his father's air castle.
  • Extract from : « The Come Back » by Carolyn Wells

Antonyms for air castle

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