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Definition: FANTASIES |
FANTASIESPlural1. Of Fantasy |
Date "FANTASIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
Crosswords: FANTASIES |
| English words defined with "FANTASIES": daydream, dream ♦ fantasist, fantasize ♦ moon ♦ paramnesia, pipe dream. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's all a great big game to you. I mean, you're all obviously too lazy and too warped to do anything meaningful with your lives so you prey upon the sexual fantasies of others. (Klute; writing credit: Andy Lewis; Dave Lewis) You can't fool us, Vic. Not after sharing so many personal, intimate fantasies! So, (Night Court; writing credit: Artur Makarov) In my wildest fantasies, I never imagined that I would really be invited to be on your show. (Space Ghost Coast to Coast; writing credit: Ben Karlin) You're the only thing in the real world that lived up to my best fantasies. (Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment; writing credit: David Mercer) That's not exactly one of my fantasies, either. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Lyrics | What if all these fantasies ("Losing My Religion"; performing artist: R.E.M.) Vivid memories turn to fantasies ("Men in Black"; performing artist: Will Smith) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Exotic French Fantasies (1974) Barbie's Fantasies (1974) High School Fantasies (1974) Female Fantasies (1972) Teenage Fantasies (1971) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Fantasies billow by shy lesbian fantasies ...Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Siblings may need such concrete experiences or explanations to prevent the construction of fantasies about the hospital and the hospital experience. (references) | |
One group of researchers reported that after receiving testosterone injections, an XXYY male stopped having violent sexual fantasies and ceased his assaults on teenaged girls. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "FANTASIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.63% of the time. "FANTASIES" is used about 539 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 99.63% | 537 | 11,465 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.37% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 539 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "FANTASIES": mala-fantasies. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fantasies.com sierras | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FANTASIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 幻想 (Delusional, Fantasy). (various references) | ||||||||||
Danish | urfantasier (primal fantasies). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | fantasmes originaires (primal fantasies). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Phantasien (fancies, imaginativenesses). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 환상 (Fantastic, Fantasy). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | antasiesfay fantasier (whimsy). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"FANTASIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Afanasii, Fanfanis, fantacies, Fantaisies, fantascies, fantasie, fantasise, fantisies, fantisise, fantisises, Fonteius, fontitis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FANTASIES" (pronounced fa"ntusēz or fa"nusēz) |
| 5 | -t u s ē z | courtesies. |
| 4 | -u s ē z | accuracies, archdiocese, bureaucracies, candidacies, conspiracies, delicacies, democracies, embassies, fallacies, inadequacies, intricacies, jealousies, legacies, pharmacies, policies, privacies, prophecies. |
| 3 | -s ē z | agencies, autopsies, bankruptcies, biopsies, competencies, constituencies, contingencies, controversies, crises, cruces, currencies, deficiencies, delinquencies, dependencies, diagnoses, discrepancies, efficiencies, emergencies, epilepsies, excellencies, exigencies, expectancies, fancies, frequencies, galaxies, gypsies, inaccuracies, inconsistencies, inefficiencies, insolvencies, insurgencies, malignancies, maxis, mercies, misdiagnoses, nazis, neuroses, oases, patsies, posses, pregnancies, presidencies, prognoses, prostheses, proxies, redundancies, residencies, taxis, tendencies, theses, transparencies, vacancies. |
| 4 | -u s ē z | accuracies, archdiocese, bureaucracies, candidacies, conspiracies, courtesies, delicacies, democracies, embassies, fallacies, inadequacies, intricacies, jealousies, legacies, pharmacies, policies, privacies, prophecies. |
| 3 | -s ē z | agencies, autopsies, bankruptcies, biopsies, competencies, constituencies, contingencies, controversies, crises, cruces, currencies, deficiencies, delinquencies, dependencies, diagnoses, discrepancies, efficiencies, emergencies, epilepsies, excellencies, exigencies, expectancies, fancies, frequencies, galaxies, gypsies, inaccuracies, inconsistencies, inefficiencies, insolvencies, insurgencies, malignancies, maxis, mercies, misdiagnoses, nazis, neuroses, oases, patsies, posses, pregnancies, presidencies, prognoses, prostheses, proxies, redundancies, residencies, taxis, tendencies, theses, transparencies, vacancies. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: fantasise. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-f-i-n-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: entasias, fantasie. | |
-2 letters: entasia, entasis, fainest, fastens, fatness, fiestas, fissate, fitness, infests, nasties, sestina, taenias, tansies, tisanes. | |
-3 letters: anises, ansate, assent, faenas, faints, fasten, feasts, feints, feists, fiesta, finest, infest, insets, safest, saints, sanest, sanies, sansei, satins, siesta, stains, stanes, steins, taenia, tafias, tassie, tenias, tineas, tisane. | |
-4 letters: anise, ansae, antae, antas, antes, antis. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-f-i-n-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: fantasised, fantasises, fantasizes, fascinates. | |
+2 letters: fantasizers. | |
+3 letters: fantasticoes, manifestants. | |
+4 letters: fanaticalness, fantasticates, fraternalisms. | |
+5 letters: afforestations, artificialness, flagellantisms, manifestations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 41 4E 54 41 53 49 45 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .- -. - .- ... .. . ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01000001 01001110 01010100 01000001 01010011 01001001 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F A N T A S I E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0041 004E 0054 0041 0053 0049 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)403548543553433953 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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