Skip to main content
fantasy realm

fantasy realm

1 5.8
A made-up world with magic and creatures like dragons and wizards
  • noun
translation icon : reino de fantasía
  • In her latest novel, the author creates an enchanting fantasy realm that captivates readers with its rich details.

Examples

  • In this context, her Chuunibyou starts to make more sense by creating a fantasy realm where she is important and has immense power; Rikka can escape from her lonely life.

    Blog text (12)
  • The story takes place in a magical fantasy realm filled with dragons and wizards.

  • Children often escape to a fantasy realm where their imaginations can run wild and anything is possible.

Synonyms

fantasy world
vsfantasy realm
21 4.4

An imagined place in your mind with magic and strange creatures

focuses on magical or supernatural elements used as narrative settings
fantasyland
vsfantasy realm
3 6.1

An imaginary place where everything is perfect and magical

focuses on being a crafted story setting with deliberate magical elements
dreamworld
vsfantasy realm
2 6.6

An imagined perfect place that exists only in dreams

is a designed fictional setting emphasizing magic or supernatural elements
otherworld
vsfantasy realm
  • Literature
2 9.9

A place beyond the living world where spirits live

is a created fictional setting rather than a realm claimed to actually exist
world of dreams
vsfantasy realm
1 6.3

A place in your mind where you imagine things

is a created magical or supernatural setting used in stories and games
faery
vsfantasy realm
  • Literature
1 9.9

An imagined magical land where small humanlike beings live

is broader and covers many magical settings beyond that specific inhabited realm

Antonyms

1.4

The way things really are, not how we imagine or wish

253 3.9

Everyday life and work outside study or theory

How Magical

magic
  • Literature
53 5.5
fantasy realm
1 5.8
imaginary place
  • Literature
6.1
land
713 6.5

Surface Forms

fantasy realm singular

Morphology

fantasy + realm

The meaning 'an imagined world with magical or supernatural elements' is directly derivable from combining 'fantasy' (fiction involving magic/supernatural elements) with 'realm' (a domain or world), forming a straightforward noun+noun compositional phrase. This is a common, cross-linguistic way to name fictional worlds, so an average B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.

Etymology

Fantasy realm joins fantasy, meaning make-believe and imagination, and realm, an old word for 'kingdom'. So it creates the idea of a made-up kingdom with magic, which is why it means 'an imagined world with magic'.