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urban fantasy

urban fantasy noun: a subgenre of fantasy which takes place a contemporary urban setting.

Noun

urban fantasy (countable and uncountable, plural urban fantasies)

  1. A subgenre of fantasy which takes place a contemporary urban setting.
  2. An individual work in this genre.
    • More recently, Amanda Hocking, author of young adult paranormal romance and urban fantasies, self-published nine of her own novels, several of which made the New York Times best-seller list.2012, Andrea Lunsford, Lisa Ede, Beverly J. Moss, Carole Clark Papper, Everyone's an Author, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton and Company, →ISBN, page 666

Forms of urban fantasy

pluralurban fantasies

Questions about urban fantasy

What does urban fantasy mean?
Urban fantasy means a subgenre of fantasy which takes place a contemporary urban setting.
What part of speech is urban fantasy?
Urban fantasy is a noun.
What is the plural of urban fantasy?
The plural of urban fantasy is urban fantasies.

Words near urban fantasy in the dictionary

  1. urban explorer
  2. urban explorers
  3. urban fabric
  4. urban fabrics
  5. urban fantasies
  6. urban fantasy
  7. urban fee
  8. urban fees
  9. urban furniture
  10. urban legend
  11. urban legends

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