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    FANTASY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

    Irregular inflected form: fantasied  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Imagination unrestricted by realityplay

    Example:

    a schoolgirl fantasy

    Synonyms:

    fantasy; phantasy

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("fantasy" is a kind of...):

    imagination; imaginativeness; vision (the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fantasy"):

    dream; pipe dream (a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe))

    fantasy life; phantasy life (an imaginary life lived in a fantasy world)

    fairyland; fantasy world; phantasy world (something existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality))

    Derivation:

    fantasist (a creator of fantasies)

    fantasize (indulge in fantasies)

    fantastic (existing in fancy only)

    fantastic (fanciful and unrealistic; foolish)

    fantastical (existing in fancy only)

    fantasy (indulge in fantasies)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Something many people believe that is falseplay

    Example:

    they have the illusion that I am very wealthy

    Synonyms:

    fancy; fantasy; illusion; phantasy

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("fantasy" is a kind of...):

    misconception (an incorrect conception)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fantasy"):

    bubble (an impracticable and illusory idea)

    ignis fatuus; will-o'-the-wisp (an illusion that misleads)

    wishful thinking (the illusion that what you wish for is actually true)

    Derivation:

    fantasize; fantasy (indulge in fantasies)

    Sense 3

    Meaning:

    Fiction with a large amount of imagination in itplay

    Example:

    she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies

    Synonyms:

    fantasy; phantasy

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("fantasy" is a kind of...):

    fiction (a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fantasy"):

    science fiction (literary fantasy involving the imagined impact of science on society)

    Derivation:

    fantasist (a creator of fantasies)

     II. (verb) 

    Verb forms

    Present simple: I / you / we / they fantasy  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it fantasies  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past simple: fantasied  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past participle: fantasied  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    -ing form: fantasying  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Indulge in fantasiesplay

    Example:

    he is fantasizing when he says he plans to start his own company

    Synonyms:

    fantasise; fantasize; fantasy

    Classified under:

    Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

    Hypernyms (to "fantasy" is one way to...):

    conceive of; envisage; ideate; imagine (form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case)

    Sentence frames:

    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s PP
    Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

    Derivation:

    fantasy (imagination unrestricted by reality)

    fantasy (something many people believe that is false)

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