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fantasy
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)
- That which comes from one's imagination.
- (literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
- A fantastical design.
- (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)
- (literary, psychoanalysis) To fantasize (about).
- (obsolete) To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cavendish to this entry?)
- (transitive) To imagine; to conceive mentally.
See also
- cloud-cuckoo-land
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from English fantasy. Doublet of fantasie.
Noun
fantasy f
- (literature) fantasy (literary genre)
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English fantasy. Doublet of fantaisie.
Noun
fantasy f (plural fantasys)
- (literature) fantasy (literary genre)
Polish
Etymology
From English fantasy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fan?ta.z?/
Noun
fantasy n (indeclinable)
- (literature) fantasy (genre)
Adjective
fantasy (not comparable)
- 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
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