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Definitions: Faery |
FaeryAdjective1. Or or pertaining to or resembling (especially in delicacy) a fairy or fairies. Noun1. Small, human in form, playful, having magical powers. 2. The enchanted realm of fairies. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "faery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: FaerySynonyms: faerie (n), fairy (n), fairyland (n), sprite (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | Come away O human child To the waters and the wild With a faery hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping Than you can understand. (Artificial Intelligence: AI; writing credit: Ian Watson) | |
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| "Faery" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 70.00% of the time. "Faery" is used about 10 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 70% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 30% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "faery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Indonesian | peri (faerie, nymph). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aeryfay.(various references) | |
Swedish | feernas värld (Faerie), fe- (Faerie, fairy), förtrollning (charm, enchantment, Faerie, fascination, glamor, glamour, spell). (various references) | |
Turkish | periler ile ilgili, periler ülkesi (dreamland, fairyland, never-never, never-never land), peri (elf, Faerie, fairy, Fay, genie, Peri, pixie, pixy, spirit, sprite), masallar diyarı (Faerie), hayali (aerial, airy, cardboard box, chimerical, delusive, Faerie, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, fictional, fictitious, fictive, illusive, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, insubstantial, phantasmal, spectral, unreal, visionary). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thiên thai các n ng tiên (faerie), tưởng tượng huyền ảo (faerie), cảnh tiên (faerie). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-r-y" | |
-1 letter: aery, eyra, fare, fear, frae, fray, yare, year. | |
-2 letters: are, arf, aye, ear, era, far, fay, fer, fey, fry, ray, ref, rya, rye, yar, yea. | |
-3 letters: ae, ar, ay, ef, er, fa, re, ya, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-r-y" | |
+1 letter: aerify, defray, fakery, flayer, frayed, freaky, rarefy, wafery. | |
+2 letters: defrays, feodary, feudary, flayers, forayed, forayer, forebay, freeway, palfrey. | |
+3 letters: affrayed, affrayer, alderfly, defrayal, defrayed, defrayer, farriery, fatherly, feathery, federacy, feracity, ferryman, fireclay, flackery, flattery, flypaper, forayers, forebays, forelady, foreplay, forestay, foreyard, freakily, freeways, funerary, palfreys, repacify, wayfarer. | |
+4 letters: aerifying, affrayers, carefully, dayflower, defrayals, defrayers, defraying, fairylike, fallalery, fearfully, federally, ferryboat, feudatory, fireclays, flypapers, foreplays, forestays, foreyards, mayflower, prayerful, preachify, prefatory, profanely, rarefying, refutably, requalify, tearfully, wayfarers. | |
+5 letters: afferently, crayfishes, dayflowers, defamatory, defrayable, dreadfully, dreamfully, fearlessly, fearsomely, ferryboats, flycatcher, flyswatter, fraternity, freakishly, funereally, gracefully, gratefully, grayfishes, infernally, ladyfinger, mayflowers, mycoflorae, preferably, prequalify, reclassify, refractory, sufferably, wearifully. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 65 72 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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 01100001 01100101 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a e r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0065 0072 0079 |
| 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)4067718491 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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