Meaning of land of Nod | Babel Free

Definitions

The state of sleep, or an imaginary place that one inhabits when asleep.

poetic

Equivalents

Examples

“Neverout. Why, miss, if you fall asleep, somebody may get a pair of gloves. / Col. I'm going to the land of Nod.”

“From breakfast on through all the day / At home among my friends I stay; / But every night I go abroad / Afar into the land of Nod.”

“[…] but she was too tired for anything under heaven to disturb her, and after a moment of wakeful dreaming she was in the land of Nod!”

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