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
And steering the vessel through precarious waters is Klaus Kinski, once the psychotic stalker of Herzog's Aguirre, Woyzeck and Nosferatu, now a Kodachrome picture of the imperialist as jolly fantast.
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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