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fanworks

fanworks is the plural of fanwork.

Meaning of fanwork

Noun (1)

fanwork (countable and uncountable, plural fanworks)

  1. Fan tracery.
    • The chapel — a soaring, slender-shafted building, with fanwork upon its roof and an apse deep and pointed — seemed full of light, withal it was hung with black velvet.1911, Maurice Hewlett, The Song of Renny, Charles Scribner's Son, 's (1911), page 389
  2. A fan-shaped network of lines or projections.
    • He smiled again, easily, dimples creasing his cheeks, and a tiny fanwork of lines crinkled the corners of his dark eyes.1999, Anne Marie Winston, Lovers' Reunion, Silhouette Books, published 1999, →ISBN

Noun (2)

fanwork (countable and uncountable, plural fanworks)

  1. A creative work produced by a fan, based on a book, movie, television show, musical group, etc.
    • William saw Michaela's fanwork of The Powerpuff Girls, her favorite TV show of all time.

Questions about fanworks

What is fanworks the plural of?
Fanworks is the plural of fanwork.

Words near fanworks in the dictionary

  1. fanweed
  2. fanwiki
  3. fanwise
  4. Fanwood
  5. fanwork
  6. fanworks
  7. fanworm
  8. fanworms
  9. fanwort
  10. fanworts
  11. fanwright

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fanworks (page history and authors); fanwork (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.

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