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English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?fænt?siz/, /?fænt?ziz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?fænt?siz/

Noun

fantasies

1. plural of fantasy

Anagrams

• fantasise

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /f?n.t??zi.?s/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /fan.ta?zi.es/

Noun

fantasies

1. plural of fantasia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??.ta.zi/

Noun

fantasies f

1. plural of fantasie

Verb

fantasies

1. second-person singular present indicative of fantasier
2. second-person singular present subjunctive of fantasier

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?f??.ta.?zi.is/

Verb

fantasies

1. second-person singular (tu) present subjunctive of fantasiar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) negative imperative of fantasiar

Spanish

Verb

fantasies

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of fantasiar.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of fantasiar.

English

Alternative forms

• phantasie (archaic)
• phantasy (chiefly dated)

Etymology

From Old French fantasie (“fantasy”), from Latin phantasia (“imagination”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (phantasía, “apparition”). Doublet of fancy, fantasia, phantasia, and phantasy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fænt?si/, /?fænt?zi/

Noun

fantasy (countable and uncountable, plural fantasies)

1. That which comes from one's imagination.
2. (literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
3. A fantastical design.
4. (slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.

Derived terms

Related terms

• fantasize

Descendants

• ? Czech: fantasy
• ? French: fantasy
• ? German: Fantasy
• ? Malay: fantasi
• ? Polish: fantasy
• ? Swahili: fantasia

Translations

Verb

fantasy (third-person singular simple present fantasies, present participle fantasying, simple past and past participle fantasied)

1. (literary, psychoanalysis) To fantasize (about).
2. (obsolete) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.

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3. (transitive) To imagine; to conceive mentally.

See also

• cloud-cuckoo-land

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English fantasy. Doublet of fantasie.

Noun

fantasy f

1. (literature) fantasy (literary genre)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English fantasy. Doublet of fantaisie.

Noun

fantasy f (plural fantasys)

1. (literature) fantasy (literary genre)

Polish

Etymology

From English fantasy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fan?ta.z?/

Noun

fantasy n (indeclinable)

1. (literature) fantasy (genre)

Adjective

fantasy (not comparable)

1. fantastical (of or pertaining to fantasy)

Declension

Indeclinable.

Related terms

• (noun) fantastyka
• (noun phrase) fantastyka naukowa
• (adjectives) fantastyczny, fantastycznonaukowy
• (adverb) fantastycznie

Further reading

• fantasy in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• fantasy in Polish dictionaries at PWN