faerie

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Archaic spelling of fairy. alt-of,archaic,countable,uncountable
    — All these stories are based upon the classic structure of the faerie tale and are highly enjoyable (and, yes, they end "happily ever after"). But they can provide much more than that.
  2. Realm of the fays, fairyland. countable,uncountable

词形变化

faeries plural færie alternative,hypercorrect,nonstandard faërie alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
faeriecore faeriedom faerie godmother faeriekind faerie tale

词源

A deliberately archaic spelling of fairy (attested since the 1300s in spellings like fairye, fayre), based on Old French faerie, used in 1590 by Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene.
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