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# fancier

«fancier» in Mova's school dictionary: **more decorated, elaborate or posh than something else** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (comparative of fancy: fancy, fancier, fanciest); noun (a fancier, fanciers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Fancier means more decorated, elaborate or posh than something else. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fancier/#m1)

2) A fancier is a person who keeps or breeds a certain kind of animal or plant as a hobby, like a pigeon fancier or a dog fancier. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fancier/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Comparisons in everyday talk (a fancier restaurant). The hobby meaning is common in UK and older writing (pigeon fanciers in the north of England). Phrases: fancier than, pigeon fancier, rose fancier.

### examples

- This cake is fancier than the one we made. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fancier/#x1)
- We went to a fancier restaurant for Gran's birthday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fancier/#x2)
- My great-uncle was a pigeon fancier with fifty birds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fancier/#x3)
- Her party dress is fancier than mine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fancier/#x4)
- A dog fancier showed his poodles at the show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fancier/#x5)
- Do you want the fancier pencil case or the plain one? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fancier/#x6)

### note

As an adjective: fancy, fancier, fanciest (y becomes ie). As a noun: «a fancier» of something. Say «FAN-see-er».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fancier» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fancier/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.