Word.ws English Dictionary

fantasies

UK/ˈfæntəsiz/US/ˈfæntəsiz/

fantasies is the plural 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.

See all 8 meanings of fantasy

Phrases with fantasies

Questions about fantasies

What is fantasies the plural of?
Fantasies is the plural of fantasy.
How do you pronounce fantasies?
Fantasies is pronounced /ˈfæntəsiz/ (UK).

Words near fantasies in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fantasies (page history and authors); fantasy (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: “fantasies.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/fantasies. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.