Meaning

(poetic) The sky..

Definitions by Sense

1. (poetic) The sky.
2. A mythical abode of gods or spirits in the sky; a heaven.
3. (science fiction) A land above the sky, such as a floating city or another planet.

Example Sentences

Look to the woodlands where the doves / Crowd with their murmurs green alcoves; / Look to the skylands where the clouds / Mantle the East with their glory-shrouds.

And the winds from the skylands brought / Over the illimitudes, a thought:— / A thought I could not understand, / That earth lay shadowed ’neath God’s hand.

In the warmest summer weather a temperature of 88 degrees may be reached, but not for long at a time, since speedily a moderating breeze with comforting designs steals down from the skylands.

The sun with its white-blue-sky coverlet sunk deep down the far horizon giving way to a skyland that wore a grey outfit.

“How, how, sister,” greeted Keyahanhi, recalled from the skylands by her welcome coming.

Manitou from the skylands once did score / Where the people today have built their homes.

With this supernatural vision went the ability to travel to the skyland, the undersea home of the seals, and the underground land of the dead, where they could communicate with and pacify the forces of nature.

That is how ancestors came from the skylands to the left.

Word Forms

• skylands

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Use skyland when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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