fantasies

5 definitions • 9 examples

a pleasant situation that you enjoy thinking about but is unlikely to happen, or the activity of imagining things like this:

Steve's favourite fantasy was to own a big house and a flashy car.

sexual fantasies

fantasy world She retreated into a fantasy world, where she could be anything she wanted.

a type of story or literature that is set in an imaginary world, often involving traditional myths and magical creatures and sometimes ideas or events from the real world, especially from the medieval period of history:

His preferred reading was horror stories and fantasy.

"Northern Lights" is the first book in Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" fantasy trilogy.

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The fantasies of Bach, Mozart, and Brahms provide a fun challenge to any advanced piano student.

The Mozart "Fantasy in D Minor" didn't get the performance this piece deserves.

a pleasant but unlikely situation that you enjoy thinking about, or the activity of thinking in this way:

[ C ] Writing songs was just a fantasy of mine.

[ U ] She retreated from life into a world of fantasy.

Fantasy is imaginative literature, often set in strange places with unusual characters and the use of magic.