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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 La·pu·tan /ləˈpjutṇ/
 浮島(a.)夢想的,不確實際的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 La·pu·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. “Laputan ideas.”
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Laputan
      adj 1: relating to or characteristic of the imaginary country of
             Laputa or its people
      2: not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories
         about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for
         getting rich" [syn: airy, impractical, visionary]