fantasy

B1 Topic:Literature & Storytelling

US /ˈfæntəsi/ See IPA manual

Homophones

phantasy /ˈfæntəsi/

Freq #3481

Meanings

1

noun
Something you imagine that is pleasant but unlikely to happen.

Winning the lottery was just a fantasy of hers.
2

noun
The use of imagination, especially about things that are not real.

As a child, she lived in a world of fantasy.
3

noun
A type of story full of magic and imaginary worlds.

He mostly reads fantasy and science fiction.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · something you imagine that... illusion

2 noun · the use of imagination,... phantasy

Word family

Forms fantasies

Derived forms cyberfantasydocufantasyfantasciencefantasist fantasticfantasylikefantasywearnonfantasypaleofantasyromantasystfantasystfsy

Related forms cloud-cuckoo-landfantasize

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Phrases (1)

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fantasy world
an imagined setting or reality that does not exist outside the imagination

Noun + noun

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō) Ancient Greek φαντάζω (phantázō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σις (-sis) Ancient Greek φᾰ́ντᾰσῐς (phắntăsĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía)bor. Latin phantasia Old French fantasiebor. Middle English fantasie English fantasy Noun inherited from Middle English fantasie, from Old French fantasie (“fantasy”), from Latin phantasia (“imag…

fantasie Middle English phantasia Latin φαντασία Ancient Greek *bʰh₂nyéti Proto-Indo-European fantasien Middle English fantasier Old French

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Topics

Literature & Storytelling General Vocabulary

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# fantasy

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B1
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈfæntəsi/
**Frequency rank:** 3481

## Meanings
1. Something you imagine that is pleasant but unlikely to happen.
2. The use of imagination, especially about things that are not real.
3. A type of story full of magic and imaginary worlds.

## Examples
- Winning the lottery was just a fantasy of hers.
- As a child, she lived in a world of fantasy.
- He mostly reads fantasy and science fiction.

## Derived Forms
- cyberfantasy
- docufantasy
- fantascience
- fantasist
- fantastic
- fantasylike
- fantasywear
- nonfantasy
- paleofantasy
- romantasy
- stfantasy
- stfsy

## Related Forms
- cloud-cuckoo-land
- fantasize

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: fantasie
- Root: phantasia
- Root: φαντασία
- Root: *bʰh₂nyéti
- Root: fantasien
- Root: fantasier

## Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der. Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō) Ancient Greek φαντάζω (phantázō) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σις (-sis) Ancient Greek φᾰ́ντᾰσῐς (phắntăsĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek φαντασία (phantasía)bor. Latin phantasia Old French fantasiebor. Middle English fantasie English fantasy Noun inherited from Middle English fantasie, from Old French fantasie (“fantasy”), from Latin phantasia (“imag…

## AI Etymology
Fantasy as a noun is inherited from Middle English fantasie, from Old French fantasie (“fantasy”), from Latin phantasia. In current use, the main senses are “Something you imagine that is pleasant but unlikely to happen” and “The use of imagination, especially about things that are not real”.

## Topics
- Literature & Storytelling
- General Vocabulary

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