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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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French mirage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?????d?/
• IPA^(key): /m??????/
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

mirage (plural mirages)

1. An optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, often giving the illusion of a body of water.

   Hypernym: optical illusion

   Hyponym: Fata Morgana

2. (figuratively) An illusion.

Translations

Verb

mirage (third-person singular simple present mirages, present participle miraging, simple past and past participle miraged)

1. (transitive) To cause to appear as or like a mirage.

Further reading

• mirage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Margie, gamier, imager, maigre

French

Etymology

mirer +? -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.?a?/

Noun

mirage m (plural mirages)

1. mirage

Descendants

Further reading

• “mirage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• émigra
• gémira
• germai
• maigre