fan cast
fan cast verb: to mentally assign a real-life person to play the role of a fictional character, based on one’s preferences as a fan.
Verb
fan cast (third-person singular simple present fan casts, present participle fan casting, simple past and past participle fan cast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) fan casted)
Noun
fan cast (plural fan casts)
- A person who has been fan cast for some particular role.
- Andrew Garfield is my fan cast of Remus Lupin.
Forms of fan cast
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | fan casts |
| present participle | fan casting |
| past participle | fan cast |
| past | fan cast |
| past participle common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimes | fan casted |
| past common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimes | fan casted |
| alternative form | fancast |
| Noun | |
| plural | fan casts |
Origin of fan cast
From fan + cast.
Questions about fan cast
- What does fan cast mean?
- Fan cast means to mentally assign a real-life person to play the role of a fictional character, based on one’s preferences as a fan.
- What part of speech is fan cast?
- Fan cast can be a verb or a noun.
- What is the past tense of fan cast?
- The past tense of fan cast is fan cast.
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