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单词 fairy
释义
fairyfai‧ry /ˈfeəri $ ˈferi/ ●●○ noun (plural fairies) [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINfairy
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French faerie ‘fairyland’, from fae ‘fairy’, from Latin fatum ‘fate’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • A beautiful fairy danced near him, and he reached out to catch her, but caught only her handkerchief.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorsomeone with magic powers
a woman who is believed to have magic power, which she uses especially to harm people or make bad things happen; in stories, witches are usually shown dressed in black with a tall, pointed hat: · The old woman had only pretended to be so kind; she was in reality a wicked witch.
an imaginary creature like a small person with wings, who has magic powers: · A beautiful fairy danced near him, and he reached out to catch her, but caught only her handkerchief.
a man who is believed to have magic power; in stories, magicians and wizards are usually shown as having a long beard and a pointed hat with stars and moons on it: · The wizard's ring had the power to make him invisible.· The magician knew that behind the door lay an enchanted garden.
also conjuror especially British someone who does magic tricks in order to entertain people: · We watched in amazement as the magician made all the rings disappear.· The conjuror's tricks delighted the children.
WORD SETS
abominable snowman, nounapparition, nounbogey, nounbogeyman, nounboogeyman, nounchangeling, noundivine, verbdjinn, noundoppelganger, noundowse, verbdowser, noundowsing rod, noundragon, noundryad, noundwarf, nounEaster Bunny, nounelf, nounelixir, nounfairy, nounfairy godmother, nounfairyland, nounfairy tale, nounFather Christmas, nounfolk, adjectivefolk hero, noungenie, nounghost, noungiant, noungiantess, noungnome, noungoblin, noungremlin, nounhobgoblin, nounimp, nounleprechaun, nounleviathan, nounley, nounlore, nounmagic carpet, nounmermaid, nounmonster, nounnecromancy, nounnever-never land, nounnymph, nounogre, nounphiltre, nounpixie, nounsandman, nounSanta Claus, nounspectre, nounsprite, nounstardust, nounsuperstition, nounsuperstitious, adjectivesylph, nountale, nountotem, nountroll, noununicorn, nounurban myth, nounvampire, nounwerewolf, nounwishing well, nounyeti, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=a children’s story in which magical things happen)· She looked like a princess in a fairy story.
· It looked like a castle in a fairy tale.
1a small imaginary creature with magic powers, which looks like a very small person2 old-fashioned not polite an offensive word for a homosexual man
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