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castles in the airphrasepl. of castle in the air a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective realityHe would work tirelessly to prove to his father that his dreams of becoming a professional painter were more than a castle in the air. chimeras, conceits, daydreams, delusions, dreams, fancies, fantasies, figments, hallucinations, illusions, nonentities, phantasms(also fantasms), pipe dreams, unrealities, visions ignes fatui, mirages, will-o'-the-wispsbrainchildren, ideasconcoctions, fables, fabrications, fictions, inventionsvisualizationscloud-cuckoo-lands, cloudlands, Shangri-las, utopiasdaymares, nightmares castles in Spain actualities, facts, realities |