faerie

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
A wild swan is a prince of faerie,

View all »
Definitions (4)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (2)

  1. noun A tiny, mischievous, imaginary being; a fairy.
  2. noun The land or realm of the fairies.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (2)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • Or that they'd get caught up between two warring factions of faerie, each demanding a sacrifice from the Brittman family. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 01 - July 2003
  • I'd guess that it was one part the impulse to stay as close as possible to Gaiman's original love/quest/adventure tale, which is played fairly straight as a faerie story. —  FSF,January2008
  • But, of course, bargains struck with faerie are never what they seem. —  EBSCOhost
  • The Company still wants to destroy its staff and has engaged the services of a strange and vindictive folk who remind the reader of faerie (they live under the hill, they have a queen, they're small) to find a poison that will do the job. —  AnalogSFF,November2007
  • ;Jacks are all crazy; just consider the meat tenderized Fighters from throughout the continent moved in the streets Kamahl saw races of all descriptions-faerie, human, dwarf centaur, and others that he could not name. —  VANCE MOORE
 

Tags

faerie hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 41 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (1)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Middle English faierie, fairie; see fairy.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/ˈfejəri/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about once a year.

Recently looked up

canon · thrumming · Ference · veritable · perdition

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich