Flying Dutchman as a noun: - 1
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flying Dutchman
noun
1 Flying Dutchman
The captain of a phantom ship (the Flying Dutchman) who was condemned to sail against the wind until Judgment Day.
2 Flying Dutchman
A phantom ship that is said to appear in storms near the Cape of Good Hope.
Dutch: Vliegende Hollander
Roget 515:
imagination;
originality;
invention;
fancy;
inspiration;
verve.
warm imagination,
heated imagination,
excited imagination,
sanguine imagination,
ardent imagination,
fiery imagination,
boiling imagination,
wild imagination,
bold imagination,
daring imagination,
playful imagination,
lively imagination,
fertile imagination,
fancy.
mind's eye;"
such stuff as dreams are made of"
[Tempest].
ideality,
idealism;
romanticism,
utopianism,
castle-building.
dreaming;
phrensy†,
frenzy;
ecstasy,
extasy†;
calenture
etc.
(delirium)
503†;
reverie,
trance;
day dream,
golden dream;
somnambulism.
conception,
Vorstellung [G.],
excogitation†,
a fine frenzy;"
cloudland†,
dreamland;
flight of fancy,
fumes of fancy;
thick coming fancies"
[Macbeth];
creation of the brain,
coinage of the brain;
imagery.
conceit,
maggot,
figment,
myth,
dream,
vision,
shadow,
chimera;
phantasm,
phantasy;
fantasy,
fancy;
whim,
whimsey†,
whimsy;
vagary,
rhapsody,
romance,
gest†,
geste†,
extravaganza;
air drawn dagger,
bugbear,
nightmare.
flying Dutchman,
great sea serpent,
man in the moon,
castle in the air,
pipe dream,
pie-in-the-sky,
chateau en Espagne [Fr.];
Utopia,
Atlantis†,
happy valley,
millennium,
fairyland;
land of Prester John,
kindgom of Micomicon;
work of fiction
etc.
(novel)
594;
Arabian nights†;
le pot au lait [Fr.];
dream of Alnashar
etc.
(hope)
858†.
illusion
etc.
(error)
495;
phantom
etc.
(fallacy of vision)
443;
Fata Morgana
etc.
(ignis fatuus) [Lat.]
423;
vapor
etc.
(cloud)
353;
stretch of the imagination
etc.
(exaggeration)
549;
mythogenesis†.
idealist,
romanticist,
visionary;
mopus†;
romancer,
dreamer;
somnambulist;
rhapsodist
etc.
(fanatic)
504;
castle-buildier,
fanciful projector.
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