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fairyhood

fairyhood noun: the state or period of being a fairy.

Noun

fairyhood (uncountable)

  1. The state or period of being a fairy.
    • The Taoists even set up quotas of merits for the attainment of fairyhood, as stated in the Taoist scripture, Pao P'u Tzu […]1970, C. K. Yang, Religion in Chinese Society: A Study of Contemporary Social Functions of Religion and Some of Their Historical Factors
    • It is important to note that the primitiveness of the notion of fairyhood does not allow the stipulation that a particular object is a fairy, any more than the primitiveness of the notion of point allows the stipulation that a particular object is a point.2018, Joan Weiner, Frege in Perspective, page 141

Origin of fairyhood

From fairy + -hood.

Questions about fairyhood

What does fairyhood mean?
Fairyhood means the state or period of being a fairy.
What part of speech is fairyhood?
Fairyhood is a noun.

Words near fairyhood in the dictionary

  1. fairydoms
  2. fairyflies
  3. fairyfloss
  4. fairyfly
  5. fairyfolk
  6. fairyhood
  7. fairyish
  8. fairyism
  9. fairyisms
  10. fairykind
  11. fairyland

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