Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - fantasy
Fantasy
fantasy
n. & v. (also phantasy) --n. (pl. -ies) 1 the faculty of inventing images, esp. extravagant or visionary ones. 2 a fanciful mental image; a day-dream. 3 a whimsical speculation. 4 a fantastic invention or composition; a fantasia. --v.tr. (-ies, -ied) imagine in a visionary manner. Etymology: ME f. OF fantasie f. L phantasia appearance f. Gk (as FANTAST)
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I. noun also phantasy (plural -sies) see: fancy Date: 14th century hallucination, fancy, a creation of the imaginative faculty whether expressed or merely conceived: as, a fanciful design or invention, a chimerical or fantastic notion, fantasia 1, imaginative fiction featuring especially strange settings and grotesque characters, caprice, the power or process of creating especially unrealistic or improbable mental images in response to psychological need , a coin usually not intended for circulation as currency and often issued by a dubious authority (as a government-in-exile), II. verb (-sied; -sying) Date: 15th century fantasize ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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