castlebuilder
English
Alternative forms
castle-builder
Noun
castlebuilder (plural castlebuilders)
- (literal) Someone who builds castles.
- Synonym: castlewright
- (figurative) Someone who builds castles in the air; someone who has overly visionary aspirations
- Synallaxis albescens, a bird that constructs a spherical nest of sticks.
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References
- “castlebuilder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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