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Fairy tale

//ˈfɛɹi ˌteɪl// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A folktale or literary story featuring fairies or similar fantasy characters.

    "I used to love reading fairy tales when I was a child."

  2. 2
    an interesting but highly implausible story; often told as an excuse wordnet
  3. 3
    The literary genre of these stories. uncountable

    "Their dresses were rich, and when they came bounding forward, their shapes of silver tissue, with their feathered diadems and faces of animated beauty, they might be imagined into scarcely less than the creations of fairy tale."

  4. 4
    a story about fairies; told to amuse children wordnet
  5. 5
    A story presented as true that is not believable.

    "He's telling us another fairy tale about how great the software will be."

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  1. 6
    A delightful and ideal situation of a kind attained by very few.

    "I've been living in a fairy tale since I met Joe."

Etymology

Calque of French conte de fées, coined by French writer Madame d'Aulnoy in the late 17th century.

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