Term Gallery logo

Meanings of fairy in English

Portuguese
veado
Catalan
monya
Spanish
pluma

Offensive term for an openly homosexual man.

      veado
      Portuguese
      fadas
      Catalan
      fada

      A small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers.

            fadas
            Usage of fairy in English
            1
            The old Chinese fairy story hits upon a fundamental and vital truth.
            The Mind and Its Education
            2
            The fairy bath was probably fed from the fountain in the court.
            Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women
            3
            The grass in the churchyard sparkled with the fairy film of gossamers.
            The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight
            4
            A dozen fairy cakes sit, slightly shrunken, in their wrinkled paper cases.
            The Irish Times
            5
            In the wrong hands that information would be devastating to fairy security.
            Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code
            6
            This year the Festivus fairy dropped off a new iPad Air 2.
            Wired
            7
            His rise in military rank had equaled the inventions of fairy tales.
            The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln
            8
            Then the fairy led the horse to the margin of the lake.
            The Golden Spears / And Other Fairy Tales
            9
            She knows more fairy tales than there are in all the books.
            A Patriotic Schoolgirl
            10
            She should have known nothing physical would injure her fairy-blessed second son.
            The devil she knows
            11
            However, the increase in plasma concentration of uric acid was fairy small.
            Pubmed
            12
            It was you who destroyed my pumpkins last year with fairy magic.
            The Secret of the Dread Forest: The Faire Folk Trilogy
            13
            And I hope you don't mind what I said about fairy tales.
            The Angel Stone
            14
            It was a night such as one reads of in fairy tales.
            Original Short Stories — Volume 09
            15
            But fairy fancies were in the air, in one form or other.
            The Heather-Moon
            16
            His note says clearly enough on the lake in the fairy gondola.
            Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigands of Greece
            About this term
            More collocations
            Translations for fairy
            Fairy through the time
            Fairy across language varieties
            Ireland
            Common
            United Kingdom
            Common
            Australia
            Common
            More variants