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fantasie

fantasie is the obsolete spelling of fantasy.

Meaning of fantasy

Noun

fantasy (countable and uncountable, plural fantasies)

  1. That which comes from one's imagination or the act of imagining things.
    • Is not this something more than fantasy?c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, London, act 1, scene 1
  2. The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.
  3. A fantastical design.
    • Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread.1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 7, in The Scarlet Letter
  4. (slang) The drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid.

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Forms of fantasie

pluralfantasies

Questions about fantasie

What is fantasie the obsolete spelling of?
Fantasie is the obsolete spelling of fantasy.

Words near fantasie in the dictionary

  1. fantaserye
  2. fantasia
  3. Fantasia'd
  4. Fantasiaing
  5. fantasias
  6. fantasie
  7. fantasied
  8. fantasies
  9. fantasies of manners
  10. fantasisation
  11. fantasisations

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