faerie

or fa·er·y

[ fey-uh-ree, fair-ee ]
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noun,plural fa·er·ies.
  1. the imaginary land of the fairies; fairyland.

  2. Archaic. a fairy.

adjective

Origin of faerie

1
First recorded in 1580–90; spelling variant of fairy
  • Also fa·ër·y .

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How to use faerie in a sentence

  • Disraeli affectionately (and with irreverence that shocked everyone but la reine) referred to Victoria as the "Faery Queen."

  • Sad faery blossoms secret scents distil In trackless solitudes; nor ever will The lone anemone her lover find!

    Charles Baudelaire, His Life | Thophile Gautier
  • And at that a cloud drew across the moons face as if by faery, and of a sudden a great hot wind blew from the south.

    Japanese Fairy Tales | Grace James
  • The Faery Queen turned to Guyon, one of the bravest and handsomest of her young knights.

  • She had been ambuscaded in the street to-day by demons not of faery, but of fact, that had leaped out at her from nowhere.

    The Cup of Fury | Rupert Hughes
  • Though barren, and without shrub or tree, the island looked lovely also—a very realm of faery, in the silver smiling of the moon.

    The Lily and the Totem | William Gilmore Simms

British Dictionary definitions for faerie

faerie

faery

/ (ˈfeɪərɪ, ˈfɛərɪ) /


nounplural -ries archaic, or poetic
  1. the land of fairies

  2. enchantment

adjective, noun
  1. a variant of fairy

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