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faeries

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for faeries.

Editorial note

That didn’t necessarily mean spirits of dead people, but also faeries and stuff.

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Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Realm of the fays, fairyland.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of faeries gathered in one view.

noun

Realm of the fays, fairyland.

noun

Archaic spelling of fairy. [(uncountable, obsolete) The realm of faerie; enchantment, illusion.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for faeries.

noun

Realm of the fays, fairyland.

noun

Archaic spelling of fairy. [(uncountable, obsolete) The realm of faerie; enchantment, illusion.]

Example sentences

1

That didn’t necessarily mean spirits of dead people, but also faeries and stuff.

2

People think the child like wonder and awe in the supernatural like tooth faeries and Santa are cute.

3

Scientists are not magical logic faeries separated from the seething mass of culture by a wall of pure mathematics.

4

Arthur Conan Doyale was duped by a couple of young girls with a camera and paper cutouts of faeries.

5

Until then, it's just faeries in the garden with updated costumes as far as i'm concerned.

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Similarly, it might turn out that our understanding of electricity is wrong and it's really faeries playing tricks on us.

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This is how electromagnetism and quantum tunnelling can be real at the same time faeries aren't.

8

Her faeries are like djinn if djinn had hopes and plans of their own.

9

But we have no evidence of faeries, so that is not a good explanation of electromagnetism.

10

Americans don't have faeries or unicorns or goblins, we've got chemtrails and little green men.

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Aliens are basically faeries and goblins for a post-industrial, technological zeitgeist.

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Nowadays we demand evidence for anything out of the ordinary and faeries in a purportedly realistic story would feel wrong to us.

Quote examples

1

The ElevenLabs narrator did say the faeries applied “Polish”.

2

You simultaneously apply standard terminology, but you go on to say that explaining entropy is "not unlike looking for God or faeries or what have you", which means you don't understand the significance of the symbols you used.

3

To anyone who is a fan of Lord Dunsany or Susanna Clarke and who wants to read the most recent iteration of scholarly fae fantasy, I recommend "Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Faeries" by Heather Fawcett.

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The Alien Tort Statute, by contrast, literally doesn't make sense--talking about the "law of nations" is like talking about the "aether" or "faeries." It's not even an originalism issue.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use faeries in a sentence?

That didn’t necessarily mean spirits of dead people, but also faeries and stuff.

What does faeries mean?

Realm of the fays, fairyland.

What part of speech is faeries?

faeries is commonly used as noun.