fairy
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Noun (2)fairies
- a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powersSynonyms: faeryfaeriefayspriteType of spiritual being, supernatural beingKinds elf, gnome, Oberon, fairy godmother, Morgan le Fay, tooth fairy, Titania, water sprite, Puck
- offensive term for a homosexual manSynonyms: fagotfaggotfagnancepansyqueenqueerpoofpoovepoufType of gay man, shirtlifter
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Translations
Noun mythical being
- Spanish
- hada
- French
- fée
- German
- Fee
- Italian
- fata
- Portuguese
- fada
- Turkish
- peri
- Russian
- фе́я féja
- Arabic
- جِنِّيَّة jinniyya
- Chinese
- 仙女 xiānnǚ
- Japanese
- 妖精 yōsei
27 more languages
- Dutch
- fee
- Polish
- wiła
- Swedish
- fe
- Greek
- νεράιδα neráida
- Korean
- 페어리 peeori
- Indonesian
- peri
- Vietnamese
- tiên nữ
- Hungarian
- tündér
- Portuguese (PT)
- fada
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 仙女 xiānnǚ
- Albanian
- zanë
- Catalan
- fada
- Czech
- víla
- Danish
- alf
- Esperanto
- feino
- Estonian
- haldjas
- Finnish
- keijukainen
- Georgian
- ფერია peria
- Latvian
- feja
- Lithuanian
- fėja
- Norwegian
- fe
- Romanian
- zână
- Scottish Gaelic
- sìth
- Slovak
- víla
- Slovenian
- vila
- Welsh
- tylwyth teg
- Yiddish
- פֿעע fee
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. fairie, faierie, enchantment, fairy folk, fairy, OF. faerie enchantment, F. féer, fr. LL. Fata one of the goddesses of fate. See Fate, and cf. Fay a fairy.
1. Enchantment; illusion. obsolete Geoffrey Chaucer
The God of her has made an end, And fro this worlde's fairy Hath taken her into company.— John Gower
2. The country of the fays; land of illusions. obsolete
He [Arthur] is a king y-crowned in Fairy.— John Lydgate
3. An imaginary supernatural being or spirit, supposed to assume a human form (usually diminutive), either male or female, and to meddle for good or evil in the affairs of mankind; a fay. See Elf, and Demon.
The fourth kind of spirit [is] called the Fairy.— K. James.
And now about the caldron sing, Like elves and fairies in a ring.— William Shakespeare
5. An enchantress. obsolete William Shakespeare
Fairy of the mine, an imaginary being supposed to inhabit mines, etc. German folklore tells of two species; one fierce and malevolent, the other gentle, See Kobold.
No goblin or swart fairy of the mine Hath hurtful power over true virginity.— John Milton
1. Of or pertaining to fairies.
2. Given by fairies; as, fairy money. John Dryden
Fairy bird Zoology, the Euoropean little tern (Sterna minuta); — called also sea swallow, and hooded tern. — Fairy bluebird. Zoology See under Bluebird. — Fairy martin Zoology, a European swallow (Hirrundo ariel) that builds flask-shaped nests of mud on overhanging cliffs. — Fairy rings or Fairy circles, the circles formed in grassy lawns by certain fungi (as Marasmius Oreades), formerly supposed to be caused by fairies in their midnight dances; also, the mushrooms themselves. Such circles may have diameters larger than three meters. — Fairy shrimp Zoology, a European fresh-water phyllopod crustacean (Chirocephalus diaphanus); — so called from its delicate colors, transparency, and graceful motions. The name is sometimes applied to similar American species. — Fairy stone Paleontology, an echinite.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54