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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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apparition
English
Etymology
From Middle French apparition, from Latin apparitio, from appareo.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?æp.?????n?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?æp.????.n?/, /?æp.???.??n/
Noun
apparition (plural apparitions)
- An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- the sudden apparition of the Spaniards
- 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II
- The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.
- August 16, 1709, Isaac Bickerstaff (pseudonym for Richard Steele or (in some later numbers of the journal) Joseph Addison), The Tatler No. 55
- […] which apparition, it seems, was you.
- August 16, 1709, Isaac Bickerstaff (pseudonym for Richard Steele or (in some later numbers of the journal) Joseph Addison), The Tatler No. 55
- An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; especially something such as a ghost or phantom.
- The attic is haunted by the ghostly apparition of a young girl who died there.
- (astronomy) The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; opposed to occultation.
- (astronomy) A period of consecutive days or nights when a particular celestial body may be observed, beginning with the heliacal rising of the body and ending with its heliacal setting.
Synonyms
- (act of becoming visible): appearance
- (a preternatural appearance): vision
- See also Thesaurus:ghost
Related terms
- apparent
- appearance
Translations
French
Etymology
From Latin app?riti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.pa.?i.sj??/
Noun
apparition f (plural apparitions)
- appearance
- ghost
- (baseball) plate appearance
Synonyms
- (ghost): fantôme
- (plate appearance): apparition au bâton, présence, présence au bâton
Derived terms
- faire son apparition
Further reading
- “apparition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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