Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fantasy"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fantasy \Fan"ta*sy\, n.; pl. {Fantasies}. [See {Fancy}.]
1. Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful
conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice;
humor.
Is not this something more than fantasy ? --Shak.
A thousand fantasies Being to throng into my memory.
--Milton.
2. Fantastic designs.
Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold
thread. --Hawthorne.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fantasy \Fan"ta*sy\, v. t.
To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy.
[Obs.] --Cavendish.
Which he doth most fantasy. --Robynson
(More's
Utopia).
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
fantasy
n 1: imagination unrestricted by reality; "a schoolgirl fantasy"
[syn: {phantasy}]
2: fiction with a large amount of fantasy in it; "she made a
lot of money writing romantic fantasies" [syn: {phantasy}]
3: something many people believe that is false; "they have the
illusion that I am very wealthy" [syn: {illusion}, {phantasy},
{fancy}]
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