fantast
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of fantast
First recorded in 1580–90; from German, Fantast, Phantast, from Greek phantastḗs “boaster”; a derivative of the verb phantázein “to make visible, present to the eye or mind”
Example Sentences
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Steven Spielberg, fantast supreme, always felt manacled by movie reality.
From Time ● Dec. 21, 2011
Disciples are the undoing of holy men, and so it is with Richard Condon, a talented and satirical fantast whose fiercely proselytizing followers regard him as the fifth hoarse man of the Apocalypse.
From Time Magazine Archive
The collected fiction, all clockwork nightingales and silver cobwebs, of an ineffable British fantast whose stories have delighted a small set of admirers for some 40 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it is still Piranesi the fantast and archivist, the obsessed historian with a burin, who holds the eye today.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has himself a good deal of the fantast again, but with a better basis of solidity beneath it.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Carlyle, Thomas
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