Fairy Definition

fârē
fairies
noun
fairies
A being usually in human form and having magic powers, specif. one that is tiny, graceful, and delicate.
Webster's New World
Used as a disparaging term for a gay man.
American Heritage
A male homosexual.
Webster's New World

(paganism) A nature spirit revered in modern paganism.

Wiktionary
adjective
Of fairies.
Webster's New World
Fairylike; graceful; delicate.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Fairy

Noun

Singular:
fairy
Plural:
fairies

Origin of Fairy

  • English from ca. 1300, first in the sense of "enchantment, illusion, dream" and later "realm of the fays, fairy-land" or "the inhabitants of fairyland as a collective". The re-interpretation of the term as a countable noun denoting individual inhabitants of fairy-land can be traced to the 1390s, but becomes common only in the 16th century.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English fairie fairyland, enchanted being from Old French faerie from fae fairy from Vulgar Latin Fāta goddess of fate from Latin fāta the Fates pl. of fātum fate fate

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English fairie, from Old French faerie, the -erie abstract of fae, from Vulgar Latin Fāta (“goddess of fate”), from Latin fātum (“fate”)

    From Wiktionary

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