fantasy
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4.3
- noun
- /ˈfæn.tə.si/
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fantasía
- The bookstore has a large section dedicated to fantasy literature, filled with stories of magic and mythical creatures.
- fantasy fiction
- fantasy novel
- fantasy books
My notes say high fantasy, great female characters.
- My notes say high fantasy, great female characters.
- We get to hold up a mirror as a fantasy genre show.
- That's like the YA fantasy plot of it.
- This time fantasy is still my main one.
- And Neil didn't pick science fiction, fantasy and Sandman for no reason.
- They had like entire sections for fantasy and science fiction.
- His first books were not actually within this fantasy series.
- As a last question, you turn to fantasy writing.
- And of course, you can see how much of modern fantasy ideas emerged from Tolkien's world.
- It must be either science fiction or fantasy or historic fiction.
- And and I like science fiction fantasy, but I also read.
- But it's science fiction fantasy space that we're building today.
Examples
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Since this book is a fantasy, accuracy refers more to the cultural depictions than the facts.
Academic text (2013) -
At first, it was like the ultimate fantasy come true.
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I may not be the creative type, but I know a good fantasy when I see one.
Fiction book (1999) -
OK guys, this is what the fantasy shelf is looking like right now.
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Anyway, my wife has recently gotten into fantasy novels.
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It's called their dark fantasy palette and it looks stunning.
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But Jerry also writes excellent fantasy stories, many of which have appeared in F&SF.
Fiction book (1996) -
Students in both feeder schools checked out the majority of books in the fantasy genre.
Academic text (2013) -
There has been art that has been full of fantasy, didacticism, and satire, for example.
Academic text (2000) -
Ray Bradbury is one of the most successful science fiction/fantasy writers of our time.
Fiction book (1999)
Synonyms
Imaginative stories with unreal or magical elements
Antonyms
Compounds
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4.4
A large event where fantasy fans meet authors, see talks, and wear costumes
How Magical
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word fantasy comes from the Greek phantasia, meaning 'appearance' or 'imagining', and shares the same root as fancy, which points to making images in the mind. That's why fantasy is used for stories full of magic and unreal worlds that are created by imagination.