Plural of fancy
regular plural
The plural of fancy is fancies.
Forms of fancy
| Singular | fancy /ˈfæn.si/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | fancies /ˈfæn.siz/ |
| Countable | countable |
Fancies in a sentence
- Her timbers were olden dreams dreamed long ago, and poets’ fancies made her tall, straight masts, and her rigging was wrought out of the people’s hopes.1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 88
- I dare say I am merely a foolish woman with a young girl's fancies.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
- She fancies herself a writer, but she'll steamroll idiom in a way that reveals a wooden ear.From the entry wooden ear
- I think that bird fancies you. You're in there, mate!From the entry in
- Go in and ask him if he fancies a date with possibilities of a legover later?2012, George East, Death Duty. From the entry legover
Meaning of fancy
- noun The imagination.
- noun An image or representation of anything formed in the mind.
- noun An opinion or notion formed without much reflection.
Questions about the plural of fancy
- What is the plural of fancy?
- The plural of fancy is fancies.
- Is fancy countable?
- Fancy is a countable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fancy (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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