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Fantasy   /fˈæntəsi/  /fˈænəsi/   Listen
noun
Fantasy  n.  (pl. fantasies)  
1.
Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor. "Is not this something more than fantasy?" "A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory."
2.
Fantastic designs. "Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread."


verb
Fantasy  v. t.  To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy. (Obs.) "Which he doth most fantasy."





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"Fantasy" Quotes from Famous Books



... inaccessible situation chosen by this strange fraternity for their convent—their rigid separation from human intercourse—the infringible taciturnity imposed upon themselves—and the terrible severity of their penances, are certainly circumstances more resembling the visionary indulgence of fantasy and fiction, than actual realities to be met with among living men, ...
— A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817 • W.D. Fellowes
... appeared once or twice in the "pro mags," as fans designate journals like this one. The other was Randall Garrett, who had previously sold a respectable number of stories to various magazines in the science fiction and fantasy field. ...
— Suite Mentale • Gordon Randall Garrett
... to wreathe thy tomb, One tear: so far, so far am I From what to me and thee was home, And where in all men's fantasy, Butchered, O God! ...
— The Iphigenia in Tauris • Euripides
... with a sudden flash of amusement, or fantasy—'I agree, Monsieur! on a condition. To prove your penitence, you shall ...
— The Poems And Prose Of Ernest Dowson • Ernest Dowson et al
... Peter the Great—who imagined that all the nations were delivered into the hand of Tsardom—can do nothing. It can do nothing because it does not exist. It has vanished for ever at last, and as yet there is no new Russia to take the place of that ill- omened creation, which, being a fantasy of a madman's brain, could in reality be nothing else than a figure out of a nightmare seated upon a ...
— Notes on Life and Letters • Joseph Conrad


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