📖 F — The English dictionary · page 6

fantasia — Everyday, meaning 1: (music) A fantasia is a piece of music written freely, following the composer's imagination rather than a strict pattern.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A fantasia is also a mixture of well-known tunes played together.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Fantasia is also the name of a 1940 Disney film set to classical music (a name).↗ Example: The orchestra played a fantasia on old sea songs.↗ · A fantasia does not follow strict rules.↗ · We listened to Fantasia on Greensleeves in music class.↗ · The Proms end with a fantasia of British songs.↗ · Disney's «Fantasia» sets cartoons to classical music.↗ · The garden show was a fantasia of colour.↗

fantastic — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal) Fantastic means extremely good, wonderful: «a fantastic party».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Fantastic means strange and imaginary, like something from a fantasy story: «fantastic creatures».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) A fantastic amount is very large: «a fantastic sum of money».↗ Example: We had a fantastic time at the beach.↗ · Fantastic work on your story!↗ · The book is full of fantastic creatures like dragons and griffins.↗ · The view from the mountain was fantastic.↗ · He told a fantastic tale about flying to the moon.↗ · The prize was a fantastic amount of money.↗ · The broken clouds hung in fantastic forms upon the wood-covered hills by the rapid Rhone.↗

fantastical — Everyday, meaning 1: Fantastical means strange, wonderful or unreal, like something from a dream or a fairy tale.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Fantastical can mean too imaginative to be true.↗ Example: The fantastical beasts in the book had wings and horns.↗ · She had a fantastical idea.↗ · His imagination was more fantastical than anyone's.↗

fantasy — Everyday, meaning 1: Fantasy is a kind of story or film with magic, dragons, wizards or imaginary worlds.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A fantasy is something pleasant you imagine or daydream about, which is not likely to really happen.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Fantasy is imagination itself, or something that is not real.↗ Everyday, meaning 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.↗ Example: I love reading fantasy books full of dragons.↗ · The Lord of the Rings is a famous fantasy story.↗ · Winning the lottery is just a fantasy for most people.↗ · My fantasy is to live in a treehouse.↗ · He lives in a fantasy world and forgets his homework.↗ · Dad is top of his fantasy football league.↗ · Is the story fact or fantasy?↗ · We wrote a fantasy tale about a talking fox.↗

far — Everyday, meaning 1: Far means a long way away.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: «How far» asks what the distance is.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Far means very much, as in far bigger.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «So far» means up to now.↗ Example: How far did she walk?↗ · The school is 3 km far from home.↗ · How far is it from A to B?↗ · So far, he has read 40 pages.↗ · Do not go far from the tent.↗ · The stars are very far away.↗ · This book is by far the best.↗ · The moon is far from Earth.↗ · The geese were soon far away.↗ · Far be it from thy servants that they should do such a thing.↗ (Torah GEN.44.7, JPS 1917)↗ · And the LORD showed him all the land, even Gilead as far as Dan; (Torah DEU.34.1, JPS 1917)↗ · and the South, and the Plain, even the valley of Jericho the city of palm-trees, as far as Zoar.↗ (Torah DEU.34.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Thus far is the judgment of Moab.↗ (Prophets JER.48.47, JPS 1917)↗ · Hearken unto Me, ye stout-hearted, that are far from righteousness: (Prophets ISA.46.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Salvation is far from the wicked; for they seek not Thy statutes.↗ (Writings PSA.119.155, JPS 1917)↗

faraway — Everyday, meaning 1: Faraway means a long distance away.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A faraway look means someone is dreaming and not paying attention.↗ Example: Once upon a time, in a faraway kingdom, there lived a king.↗ · She dreamed of faraway places.↗ · We heard a faraway train whistle.↗ · He had a faraway look in his eyes.↗ · My cousin lives far away, in Australia.↗ · The stars are faraway suns.↗ · The castle stood on a faraway hill.↗ · But these were so loud that they could be heard by the faraway hills.↗

farce — Everyday, meaning 1: A farce is a funny play or film full of silly situations, mix-ups, chases and people hiding in cupboards.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) A farce is a situation that is so badly organised or unfair that it is ridiculous: «The sports day was a farce».↗ Example: We watched a farce where everyone kept slamming doors.↗ · The match was a farce because the referee didn't turn up.↗ · The school trip turned into a farce when the bus broke down.↗ · The play is a farce full of mistaken identities.↗ · Calling that a fair vote is a farce!↗ · Farce is one of the oldest kinds of comedy.↗

fare — Everyday, meaning 1: A fare is the money you pay to travel on a bus, train, plane, taxi or boat.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To fare means to do or get on in a certain way: «How did you fare in the test?».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Fare is food, especially a kind of food: «simple country fare».↗ Example: How much is the bus fare to town?↗ · Children travel at half fare.↗ · Dad paid the taxi fare.↗ · A return fare is cheaper than two singles.↗ · How did you fare in your swimming test?↗ · The café served simple, tasty fare.↗ · Train fares go up every year.↗ · If one fare is $2, four fares cost $8.↗ · "Here is excellent fare!" said the sparrow.↗

farewell — Everyday, meaning 1: (old-fashioned or formal) Goodbye, as in «Farewell, my friend!».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) The act of saying goodbye, especially when someone leaves for a long time, as in «We said our farewells».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (adjective) Done to say goodbye, as in «a farewell party».↗ Example: We had a farewell party for our teacher.↗ · «Farewell!» said the knight, riding away.↗ · They said their farewells at the airport.↗ · The class sang a farewell song in the last assembly.↗ · We bid farewell to summer as the leaves fell.↗ · She waved a fond farewell from the train.↗ · "Farewell, farewell," whispered the little elf.↗

farm — Everyday, meaning 1: A farm is land with buildings where people grow crops and keep animals.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To farm is to grow crops or keep animals for food.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Some farms raise fish, like a fish farm.↗ Example: The farm has 20 cows and 35 chickens.↗ · They grow corn on the farm.↗ · How many animals are on the farm?↗ · The farm is 50 acres.↗ · We visited a farm on our school trip.↗ · Wash your hands after petting farm animals.↗ · Milk comes from dairy farms.↗ · His family has farmed this land for years.↗ · You shall have a large farm-yard.↗

farmer — Everyday, meaning 1: A farmer is a person who owns or works on a farm, growing crops or raising animals.↗ Example: A farmer has 15 sheep.↗ · The farmer sold 40 eggs.↗ · Each farmer planted 6 rows.↗ · The farmer picked 120 apples.↗ · The farmer milks the cows every morning.↗ · We bought apples at the farmers' market.↗ · Farmers need rain for their crops.↗ · The farmer drove the tractor across the field.↗ · It was the farmer returning home.↗

farmhouse — Everyday, meaning 1: A farmhouse is the main house on a farm, where the farmer and family live.↗ Example: There was a large farmhouse near the road.↗ · Dorothy knocked at the farmhouse door.↗ · We ate lunch in the farmhouse kitchen.↗

farmland — Everyday, meaning 1: Farmland is land used for farming: growing crops or keeping animals.↗ Example: The train passed through miles of farmland.↗ · Our village is surrounded by farmland.↗ · Rivers make the farmland around them rich.↗ · Some forests were cut down to make farmland.↗ · Sheep grazed on the green farmland.↗ · Keep gates closed when you walk across farmland.↗ · The map shows farmland in yellow.↗

farmyard — Everyday, meaning 1: A farmyard is the area round the farm buildings, often with animals and machines in it.↗ Example: The hens pecked at seeds in the farmyard.↗ · The farmyard was muddy after the rain.↗ · We learned the names of farmyard animals and their babies.↗ · A tractor rumbled across the farmyard.↗ · The pig escaped from the farmyard.↗ · Can you make farmyard noises?↗ Moo!↗ Baa!↗ Oink!↗ · Wash your hands after touching farmyard animals.↗ · TWO GAME COCKS were fiercely fighting for the mastery of the farmyard.↗

farrier — Everyday, meaning 1: A farrier is a person whose job is to look after horses' hooves and fit horseshoes on them.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In the past a farrier could also treat sick horses, a little like an animal doctor.↗ Example: The farrier came to fit new shoes on my pony.↗ · A farrier trims horses' hooves like we cut our nails.↗ · The farrier heated the horseshoe in the forge.↗ · Nailing on a shoe doesn't hurt the horse.↗ · My uncle trained for years to become a farrier.↗ · The farrier shod 4 horses, each with 4 shoes, so he used 16 shoes.↗ · The knight's horse needed the farrier after the long ride.↗

fart — Everyday, meaning 1: (rude, informal) To let gas out from the bottom; to pass wind.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (rude, informal) The gas, often with a noise or a smell, that comes out.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (rude, informal) «Old fart»: a rude name for a boring or old-fashioned person.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (rude, informal) «Fart about / fart around» (UK): to waste time doing silly things.↗ Example: (rude) «Ew, who farted?»↗ · (rude) The baby farted and everyone laughed.↗ · (polite) Excuse me, I passed wind.↗ · (rude) Stop farting about and get dressed!↗ · (rude) «Grandad's such an old fart,» my brother joked.↗ · Cows release gas when they burp and fart.↗

farther — Everyday, meaning 1: Farther means more far, a longer way away.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Farther can also mean more forward or onward: walk farther.↗ Example: Tom ran 5 km and Ben ran 2 km farther.↗ · How much farther is the park than the shop?↗ · Who threw the ball farther?↗ · She lives 3 miles farther away.↗ · The beach is farther than the lake.↗ · We can't walk any farther.↗ · Her paper plane flew farther than mine.↗ · "Is it much farther?" asked Proserpina.↗ · Miller farther says: "The discovery of zero, as used above, implies its use in positional arithmetic.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

farthest — Everyday, meaning 1: At the greatest distance; the most far away.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adverb) To the greatest distance: «who can throw farthest?».↗ Example: Neptune is the farthest planet from the Sun.↗ · Who can throw the ball the farthest?↗ · The farthest I have walked is 10 kilometres.↗ · Our classroom is the farthest from the gate.↗ · Sam lives farthest away from school.↗ · In the long jump, Ella jumped 3 m, Jo 2.5 m and Kim 2 m, so Ella jumped farthest.↗ · It was the farthest corner of the garden, and in it was standing a little boy.↗ · Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the farthest end of the wilderness, and came to the mountain of God, unto Horeb.↗ (Torah EXO.3.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou hast gotten Thee honour with the nations, O LORD, yea, exceeding great honour with the nations; Thou art honoured unto the farthest ends of the earth.↗ (Prophets ISA.26.15, JPS 1917)↗

farthing — Everyday, meaning 1: A farthing was an old British coin worth a quarter of a penny.↗ It is no longer used.↗ (old use).↗ Example: Not a single farthing will I take!↗ · She had not had a farthing all day.↗ · Boys found old nails and farthings in the gutter.↗

farthingale — Everyday, meaning 1: A farthingale was a frame or hoop worn under a long skirt to make it stand out, worn by ladies long ago.↗ (old use).↗ Example: She was dressed in a ruff and a farthingale.↗ · The farthingale made her skirt stand out wide.↗

fascinated — Everyday, meaning 1: Extremely interested in something, so that you want to keep watching or learning about it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Held still by something you cannot stop looking at, as if under a spell.↗ Example: I am fascinated by volcanoes.↗ · The children watched the caterpillar, fascinated.↗ · Toad was fascinated by the motor car.↗ · She was fascinated with the stars and wanted to be an astronaut.↗ · The cat sat fascinated by the goldfish.↗ · We were fascinated to learn how bees make honey.↗ · He did it with such an air, he was so frightfully distingué, that she was too fascinated to cry out.↗

fascinating — Everyday, meaning 1: Extremely interesting, so that you want to keep looking, listening or learning.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A fascinating person can also be charming and attractive, so that people enjoy being near them.↗ Example: Volcanoes are fascinating.↗ · Did you know octopuses have three hearts?↗ Isn't that fascinating?↗ · The museum had a fascinating dinosaur display.↗ · Mole found the river fascinating and could watch it for hours.↗ · Alice found the Caterpillar rude but fascinating.↗ · I read a fascinating book about space.↗ · It's fascinating to watch ants carry food.↗ · From surprise she soon passed to admiration, and then to delight on perceiving how handsome and fascinating he was.↗

fascination — Everyday, meaning 1: Fascination is a strong interest that holds your attention so you cannot look away.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Fascination is the power to attract and charm someone.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: a powerful pull that holds the attention or seems to bewitch someone.↗ Example: Helen still had all her beauty and fascination.↗ · Circe began to use her fascinations on him.↗ · He felt the fascination of her eyes.↗ · The book has a fascination for children.↗ · Menelaus now sought Helen in the royal palace, who, being immortal, still retained all her former beauty and fascination.↗ (Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome) · But all warnings and past experience were forgotten by Odysseus when Circe commenced to exercise upon him her fascinations and blandishments.↗ (Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome) · And, besides, he felt the fascination of Ludovine’s eyes, which looked at him as a snake looks at a little bird.↗ (The Green Fairy Book)