fantast

or phan·tast

[fan-tast]

noun

a visionary or dreamer.

Origin of fantast

1580–90; < German, variant of Phantast < Greek phantastḗs boaster; modern sense by association with fantastic

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Examples from the Web for fantast

Historical Examples of fantast

The epithet "fantast" may be equally suitably applied to Brentano.
Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature, Vol. II (of 6): The Romantic School in Germany
Georg Brandes
Besides plays, now unreadable, he wrote two long novels and a number of short tales, which all bear witness to the fantast in him.
Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature, Vol. II (of 6): The Romantic School in Germany
Georg Brandes
He has himself a good deal of the fantast again, but with a better basis of solidity beneath it.
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XX. (of XXI.)
Thomas Carlyle

British Dictionary definitions for fantast

fantast

noun

a dreamer or visionary

Word Origin for fantast

C16: from German Phantast, from Greek phantastēs boaster; English word influenced in meaning by fantastic

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