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Definitions: Phantasy |
PhantasyNoun1. Something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy". 2. Fiction with a large amount of fantasy in it; "she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies". 3. Imagination unrestricted by reality; "a schoolgirl fantasy". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "phantasy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: PhantasySynonyms: fancy (n), fantasy (n), illusion (n). (additional references) |
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Phantasy is a demo group active on ZX Spectrum. They arrange the demo party Phat.
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Idea | View; (opinion); theory; conceit, fancy; phantasy; (imagination).point of view; (aspect); field of view. |
Imagination | Conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera; phantasm, phantasy; fantasy, fancy; whim, whimsey, whimsy; vagary, rhapsody, romance, gest, geste, extravaganza; air drawn dagger, bugbear, nightmare. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Phantasy |
| English words defined with "phantasy": phantasy life, phantasy world. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | A Phantasy (1952) Polychrome Phantasy (1935) Phantasy Star (1988) | |
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| "Phantasy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.67% of the time. "Phantasy" is used about 30 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 (singular) | 96.67% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 30 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "phantasy": phantasy life ♦ phantasy world. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "phantasy": phantasy-gratification, phantasy-phallus. | |
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| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "phantasy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përfytyrim (fantasy, image, imagination, notion, picture, reproduction, vision), trill (caprice, crotchet, device, deviltry, fad, fancy, fantasy, freak, kink, vagary, wantonness, whim, whimsy), imagjinatë (fancy, fantasy, imagination, make believe), fantazi (daydream, dream, fancy, fantasia, fantasy, idea, imagination, make believe), ëndërrim (dream, fancy, fantasy, reverie). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | هوى (aerate, air, fan, fantasy, freak, inclination, love, passion, sentiment, vagary, whim), نزوة (caprice, crank, fancy, fantasy, freak, heat, maggot, quirk, vagary, whim, whimsy), وهم خداع (fantasy), تصور (be photographed, conceive, conception, envisage, fantasy, ideation, imagination, imagine, picture, project, see, suppose, vision, visualization, visualize), خيال جامح (fantasy), خيال (conceit, fantasy, fiction, ghost, illusion, imagination, shade, shadow, shape, silhouette, spectrum, spook, wraith), إبداع (creation, fantasy, ingeniousness, ingenuity, magnum opus, novelty, originality, origination), ثمرة من ثمرات الخيال (fantasy, imagination). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | фантазия (daydream, dream, fairy tale, fancy, fantasia, fantasy, imagination, invention), илюзия (deception, delusion, dream, fantasy, glamor, glamour, illusion, maya, phantasm, phantom, vapor, vapour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | fantazie (fancy, fantasy, imagination, pipe dream, vision). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فانتزی (Extravaganza). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Phantasie (fancy, fantasia, fantasy, imagination, imaginativeness, invention). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φαντασία (conceit, fancy, fantasy, fiction, imagination). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | képzelet (dirty mind, fancy, fantasy, imagination), fantázia (brains, fantasia, fantasy, imagination). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | angan (idea, illusion, notion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | romanzo (fantasy, novel, Roman, romance), immaginazione (chestiness, fancy, fantasy, imagination), fantasticheria (fantasy, reverie), fantasia (daydream, fancy, fantasia, fantasy, imagination). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | antasyphay irreal (airy, artificial, dreamlike, hollow, insubstantial, notional, shadowy, unreal, visional), imaginação (conceit, fancy, fantasy, figurant, idea, imagination, vision), fantasia (caprice, chimera, crotchet, doss, dream, fable, fairytale, fancy, fantasize, fantasy, freak, idea, illusion, imagination, invention, legend, maggot, moonshine, phantasmagoria, reverie, unreality, vagary, vapor, vapour, whim, whimsical), desejo (appetite, breathing, craving, desirability, desire, elan, fancy, fantasy, list, longing, lust, pleasure, want, will, wish), afeição (affection, devotion, disposal, fancy, fantasy, fellow feeling, friendship, goodwill, heart, inclination, liking, love, tendency). (various references) imaginaţie (fancy, fiction, imagination, make believe), fantezie (day dream, fancy, fantasy, fiction, freak, imagination, make believe, reverie). (various references) фантазия (chimera, crotchet, fancy, fantasia, fantasy, make believe, moonshine, phantasia), воображение (fancy, fantasy, imagination, make believe). (various references) mašta (fancy, imagination), fantazija (fancy, fantasia, fantasy). (various references) irrealidad (fantasia, fantasy, unreality), imaginación (construction, fancy, fantasy, imagination, make believe), fantasía (fancy, fantasia, fantasy), ensueño (day dream, daydream, dream, fantasy, reverie), capricho (capriccio, caprice, fancy, fantasy, freak, humor, humour, mood, notion, obstinacy, quirk, sulkiness, vagary, waywardness, whim, whimsey, whimsy). (various references) fantasi (extravaganza, fanciful, fancy, fantasia, fantasy, imagination, imaginative power, make believe, make-believe). (various references) kuruntu (chimera, cobweb, delusion, fancy, fantasy, fears, hip, hypochondria, imagination, misgiving, shyness, specter, spectre, the dismals, unfounded suspicion, vapor, vapour, vision), kurgu (editing, fantasy, fiction), imgelem (fancy, fantasy, imagination), hayal gücü (fantasy, imagination, imaginativeness, vision), hayal (bubble, castles in spain, castles in the air, day dream, delusion, dream, fancy, fantasy, illusion, illusiveness, imagination, pink elephant, pipe dream, reflection, reverie, shadow, simulacrum, specter, spectre, vision, waking dream), fantezi (fancy, fantasia, fantasy, flamboyance), acayip fikir (fantasy). (various references) фантазія (crotchet, day dream, fancy, fantasia, fantasy, imagination, moonshine). (various references) khả năng tưởng tượng (fantasy), hình ảnh tưởng tượng sự trang trí quái dị (fantasy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "phantasy": phantasying. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "phantasy" (pronounced 'Phan"ta*sy'): Ablepsy, Acatalepsy, Achromatopsy, Adipsy, Aerognosy, Ambassy, Anamorphosy, Antonomasy, Apepsy, Apostasy, Argosy, Astrognosy, Autonomasy, Autopsy, Bousy, Cephalotripsy, Clerisy, Clumsy, Controversy, Curtesy, Dyscrasy, Eclampsy, gassy, Geodesy, Geognosy, Gipsy, Henhussy, Heresy, hypocrisy, idiosyncrasy, Leasy, leprosy, Lithogenesy, Lithotripsy, Madegassy, Metalepsy, minstrelsy, Misy, Mucksy, Necropsy, Nympholepsy, Oryctognosy, Palissy, Paronomasy, pharmacognosy, Photopsy, Pleurisy, Plurisy, Poesy, Posy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-h-n-p-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: apathy, shanty. | |
-3 letters: antas, antsy, ataps, ayahs, hansa, hants, hasty, nasty, pansy, pants, panty, pasha, pasta, pasty, paths, patsy, satay, snath, staph, synth, tansy, tapas. | |
-4 letters: aahs, anas, ansa, anta, ants, ashy, atap, ayah, hant, haps, hasp, hast, hats, hays, hyps, naps, nays, pans, pant, pash, past, path, pats, paty, pays, phat, pyas. | |
-5 letters: aah. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-h-n-p-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: polyanthas. | |
+3 letters: phalanstery, phantasying, pyracanthas. | |
+4 letters: asphyxiating, asphyxiation. | |
+5 letters: asphyxiations, metaphysician, parasyntheses, parasynthesis, parasynthetic, psychasthenia, psychoanalyst. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 68 61 6E 74 61 73 79 |
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