fae
Americanplural noun
noun
preposition
Usage
What does fae mean? Fae is a Scottish preposition that means "from."English is spoken differently in different places, and the Scottish dialect (called Scots) comes with some of its own words. Example: Mary asked James, “Whaur are ye fae?” meaning “Where are you from?”
Synonym Usage
See fairy.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of fae
First recorded in 1350–1400; see origin at fay 1 ( def. ); see also fairy ( def. )
Example Sentences
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I loved watching the fae creatures of the Fantastikals frolic around, getting into mischief.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
Zardoya’s yearning for a love lost crescendoes, and is most devastating, in the piano ballad “Back to You”; but it seems as though even her darkest, most melancholic moments are touched by the fae.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025
The dark fae evolved to live in different climates, and they range from sand-colored desert dwellers to jungle fae with rainbow-hued macaw-esque wings.
From The Verge ● Oct. 17, 2019
In exchange for their lives, the fae are expected to refrain from flying or aspiring to be on equal social footing with humans.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2019
“Jonafren, I love your tie!” he said to a fae who was filing something close by.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
See, see auld Orthodoxy's faes She's swingein thro' the city!
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
But now thy flow’ry banks appear Like drumlie winter, dark and drear, While my dear lad maun face his faes, Far, far frae me and Logan braes!
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
Beloved by friends, revered by faes, We'd live in bliss on Logan braes.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles
But, waes my heart! thae days are gane, And I wi' grief may herd alane; While my dear lad maun face his faes, Far, far frae me and Logan braes.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles
Loudoun's bonnie woods and braes, I maun lea' them a', lassie; Wha can thole when Britain's faes Wald gi'e Britons law, lassie?
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles
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