Klatch
- proper noun
- Literature
- The travelers were excited to explore the vibrant markets of Klatch during their journey through the Discworld.
Examples
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In Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, Klatch is depicted as a land of vast deserts and rich cultures.
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I'm playing a set at the Koffee Klatch this Saturday.
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The pressures of everyday demands and their political ramifications are explored fruitfully by Rebecca Klatch, A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), chapter 9.
Academic text (2011) -
Many characters in the Discworld stories often reference Klatch as a place full of colorful traditions and diverse inhabitants.
Synonyms
A fictional continent where most of the story in Game of Thrones takes place
An imaginary floating island in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels where people focus on useless ideas instead of practical matters
A made-up Central European kingdom often used as a setting for adventure and romance
A fictional land where everything is very large
An area in The Elder Scrolls game with giant mushrooms and ashlands
A fictional group of islands that are the setting of three fantasy books by Jack Vance
An imaginary island where the board game takes place
Surface Forms
Etymology
Klatch is the name of a fictional country in Terry Pratchett's Discworld. Pratchett likely took the name from a German or Yiddish word klatsch, meaning 'gossip' or 'chat' and seen in English as coffee klatch, so the name brings to mind a lively place of people, talk and many cultures, which fits the deserts and cities of Klatch.