faerie
Americannoun
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the land of fairies
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enchantment
adjective
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of faerie
First recorded in 1580–90; spelling variant of fairy
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Listeners fall for his roughed-up delivery—like a Yankee fan in a faerie realm—as they devour the steamy novels by Sarah J. Maas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Instead, they learn to sing the local language in a lovely faerie hymnal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2025
The show took over St. Ann’s Warehouse, in Brooklyn, in a 24-hour-long “radical faerie realness ritual sacrifice” that amounted to a transcendent artistic and political gesture.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
Elusive, childlike and literally untouchable, Trelia seems more a creature of faerie than a human being.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022
He is a faerie child, with a faerie child’s whims.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
The fictional characters of the Maasverse return this week with “A Court of Splintered Harmony,” the sixth book in the blockbuster series that has unspooled labyrinthine tales of pointy-eared faeries and bloodthirsty monsters since 2015.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
It follows 19-year-old Feyre Archeron and her sisters as they are carried out of the human realm and into Prythian, a land ruled by dashing faeries.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
Then the prince’s former spymaster approaches Mer with a plan to steal the prince’s treasure, with a team of rogues that includes a corgi that might be a spy for the faeries.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2022
In one ear they had the hope-peddlers and centrist pundits whispering, like faeries or gods in some pre-Raphaelite painting, that everything would be fine and they should just keep sleeping.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2022
She’s standing frozen in the middle of the revel, looking lost, as faeries swarm around her, swinging their partners in dizzying spirals.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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