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Definition of Fairy

Fairy Enchantment; illusion. The country of the fays; land of illusions. An imaginary supernatural being or spirit, supposed to assume a human form (usually diminutive), either male or female, and to meddle for good or evil in the affairs of mankind; a fay. See Elf, and Demon. An enchantress. Of or pertaining to fairies. Given by fairies; as, fairy money. Related Definitions: An, And, As, Assume, Being, By, Country, Demon, Diminutive, Either, Elf, Enchantment, Enchantress, Evil, Fairies, Fairy, Fay, Female, For, Form, Given, Good, Human, Illusion, Imaginary, In, Land, Male, Mankind, Meddle, Money, Of, Or, Pertaining, See, Spirit, Supernatural, Supposed, The, To

Fairy Quotations A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. Marie Curie Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. William Butler Yeats I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. Eleanor Roosevelt This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. Neil Gaiman My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too. Kate DiCamillo

Fairy Translations fairy in Afrikaans is gees, fee fairy in Finnish is haltia fairy in German is Fee, Elfe, Zauberin fairy in Italian is fata fairy in Norwegian is fe fairy in Spanish is hada

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