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
Example Sentences
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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
Your Neopoints piled up and you spent them on plushies, faerie quests, paintbrushes, and you watched your pets deteriorate right before your eyes.
From The Verge ● Dec. 7, 2020
“The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Lovers, to bed; ’tis almost faerie time ...”
From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick
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
They’ll want to chat — faeries are a chipper lot — but it’s best to get inside the pub’s doors before one gets led astray.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2018
Countless faeries are constantly working inside this form, blending theater with ritual and casting story- spells intended to change the world.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2018
I know that faeries are not gods—maybe I know that better than any mortal alive—but neither have I ever seen one hunched over a bedpan.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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