Word.ws English Dictionary

fan casting

fan casting is the present participle and gerund of fan cast.

Meaning of fan cast

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)

  1. (slang) To mentally assign a real-life person to play the role of a fictional character, based on one’s preferences as a fan.
    • I fan cast Andrew Garfield as Remus Lupin.

See all 2 meanings of fan cast

Questions about fan casting

What is fan casting the present participle and gerund of?
Fan casting is the present participle and gerund of fan cast.

Words near fan casting in the dictionary

  1. fan cameras
  2. fan car
  3. fan cars
  4. fan cast
  5. fan casted
  6. fan casting
  7. fan casts
  8. fan club
  9. fan clubs
  10. fan coral
  11. fan corals

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fan casting (page history and authors); fan cast (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “fan casting.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/fan_casting. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.