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# fantasy

«fantasy» in Mova's school dictionary: **a kind of story or film with magic, dragons, wizards or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (fantasy, fantasies); adjective use (fantasy football, fantasy story)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Fantasy is a kind of story or film with magic, dragons, wizards or imaginary worlds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantasy/#m1)

2) A fantasy is something pleasant you imagine or daydream about, which is not likely to really happen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantasy/#m2)

3) Fantasy is imagination itself, or something that is not real. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantasy/#m3)

4) Fantasy football (or another sport) is a game where you pick an imaginary team of real players and score points from their real results. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantasy/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In English lessons, fantasy is a genre: The Hobbit, Harry Potter and Narnia are fantasy books. In everyday life, «it's just a fantasy» means it is only a dream. Many families play fantasy football or fantasy league. Common phrases: «fantasy world», «fantasy novel», «live in a fantasy world», «fantasy football», «a childhood fantasy», «fact or fantasy».

### examples

- I love reading fantasy books full of dragons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantasy/#x1)
- The Lord of the Rings is a famous fantasy story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantasy/#x2)
- Winning the lottery is just a fantasy for most people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantasy/#x3)
- My fantasy is to live in a treehouse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantasy/#x4)
- He lives in a fantasy world and forgets his homework. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantasy/#x5)
- Dad is top of his fantasy football league. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantasy/#x6)
- Is the story fact or fantasy? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantasy/#x7)
- We wrote a fantasy tale about a talking fox. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fantasy/#x8)

### note

Plural: fantasies. The adjectives are «fantastic» (wonderful, or very strange) and «fantastical» (strange and imaginary). Fantasy is different from science fiction: fantasy uses magic, science fiction uses imagined science and technology.

### In the corpora

- [Hana reads thick fantasy books alone every break.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/466-joining-a-game-and-the-shy-kid/21/)
- [Cartoon cavemen who grunt and ride dinosaurs are pure fantasy: dinosaurs died out about 66 million years before the first humans.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/1-the-first-people/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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