Laputan : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Laputan	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Laputan
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Laputan adj relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of Laputa or its people not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich" Synonym(s): airy, impractical, visionary, Laputan, windy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Laputan \Lapu"tan\, a. Of or pertaining to Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Gulliver's Travels as the home of chimerical philosophers. Hence, fanciful; preposterous; absurd in science or philosophy. [bd]Laputan* ideas.[b8] --G. Eliot.