fantasy
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 →
2) A fantasy is something pleasant you imagine or daydream about, which is not likely to really happen. tree →
3) Fantasy is imagination itself, or something that is not real. tree →
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 →
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 →
- The Lord of the Rings is a famous fantasy story. tree →
- Winning the lottery is just a fantasy for most people. tree →
- My fantasy is to live in a treehouse. tree →
- He lives in a fantasy world and forgets his homework. tree →
- Dad is top of his fantasy football league. tree →
- Is the story fact or fantasy? tree →
- We wrote a fantasy tale about a talking fox. tree →
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.
- Cartoon cavemen who grunt and ride dinosaurs are pure fantasy: dinosaurs died out about 66 million years before the first humans.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «fantasy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.