Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - fantasy
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Fantasy
fantasy
also phantasy (fantasies) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. A fantasy is a pleasant situation or event that you think about and that you want to happen, especially one that is unlikely to happen. ...fantasies of romance and true love. = dream N-COUNT 2. You can refer to a story or situation that someone creates from their imagination and that is not based on reality as fantasy. The film is more of an ironic fantasy than a horror story. N-VAR 3. Fantasy is the activity of imagining things. ...a world of imagination, passion, fantasy, reflection. N-UNCOUNT
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I. noun also phantasy (plural -sies) Etymology: Middle English fantasie — more at fancy Date: 14th century 1. obsolete hallucination 2. fancy; especially the free play of creative imagination 3. a creation of the imaginative faculty whether expressed or merely conceived: as a. a fanciful design or invention b. a chimerical or fantastic notion c. fantasia 1 d. imaginative fiction featuring especially strange settings and grotesque characters — called also ~ fiction 4. caprice 5. the power or process of creating especially unrealistic or improbable mental images in response to psychological need an object of ~; also a mental image or a series of mental images (as a daydream) so created sexual fantasies of adolescence 6. 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 ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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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) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. воображение, фантазия by the power of fantasy —- силой воображения 2. плод, игра воображения this is no more than fantasy —- это не более чем иллюзия 3. уст. галлюцинация 4. каприз 5. необоснованное предположение, фантазия, бред 6. муз. фантазия 7. попурри из популярных мелодий 8. лит. фантастика science fiction and fantasy —- научная и чистая (ненаучная) фантастика 9. воображать, представлять себе I can't fantasy him as a soldier! —- никак не могу представить его солдатом! fantasy his doing a thing like that —- подумать только, что он мог это сделать just fantasy!, only fantasy! —- можете себе представить!, подумайте только! fantasy that, now! —- удивительно!, странно! 10. предполагать, полагать I fantasy he has gone —- я полагаю, что его уже нет (что он уже ушел) I rather fantasy she isn't happy —- я не думаю, что она счастлива 11. нравиться, любить I don't fantasy this place at all —- мне совсем не нравится это место the patient may eat anything that he fancies —- больной может есть все, что захочет what do you fantasy for your dinner? —- что бы ты съел на обед? 12. разг. быть высокого мнения о себе, быть самодовольным, "воображать" (обыкн. to fantasy oneself) he fancies himself as an orator —- он воображает себя оратором 13. воображать; напрасно надеяться he fancies that he can succeed without working hard —- он воображает, что может достичь успеха...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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noun 1) воображение, фантазия 2) иллюзия; игра воображения 3) каприз 4) = fantasia Syn: see delusion ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ n plural fantasies 1 an exciting and unusual experience or situation you imagine happening to you but which will probably never happen (He used to indulge in fantasies about being a famous actor. | sexual fantasies | Young children sometimes can't distinguish between fantasy and reality. | live in a fantasy world) (He lived in a fantasy world and never faced up to his problems.) 2 an idea or belief that is based only on imagination, not on real facts (These claims about being `the party of law and order' are pure fantasy.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- c.1350, from O.Fr. fantasie, from L. phantasia, from Gk. phantasia "appearance, image, perception, imagination," from phantazesthai "picture to oneself," from phantos "visible," from phainesthai "appear" (middle voice phainein "to show"), related to phaos, phos "light." Sense of "whimsical notion, illusion" is pre-1400, followed by that of "imagination," which is first attested 1539. Fantasize is from 1926. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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