When I was a child, my mother would often read fairy tales to me.
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Fairy
//ˈfɛəɹi//
Synonyms for "fairy" (130 found)
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4 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesderived
117 entriesShowing 16 of 117 words.
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3 entriesis a
6 entriesrelated to
65 entriesShowing 16 of 65 words.
Translations
205 translations across 85 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- fee noun (mythical being)
Albanian
1 entries- zanë noun (mythical being)
Arabic
2 entries- جِنِّيَّة noun (mythical being)
- سَاحِرَة noun (mythical being)
Armenian
1 entries- փերի noun (mythical being)
Aromanian
1 entries- dzãnã noun (mythical being)
Asturian
1 entries- fada noun (mythical being)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- pəri noun (mythical being)
Belarusian
2 entries- фе́я noun (mythical being)
- чараўні́ца noun (mythical being)
Bengali
1 entries- পরী noun (mythical being)
Bulgarian
4 entries- ви́ла noun (mythical being)
- магьо́сница noun (mythical being)
- наре́чница noun (mythical being)
- ори́сница noun (mythical being)
Catalan
1 entries- fada noun (mythical being)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 仙女 noun (mythical being)
- 仙子 noun (mythical being)
- 同性戀 /同性恋 noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
Cornish
2 entries- fay noun (mythical being)
- spyrys noun (mythical being)
Czech
2 entries- teplouš noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
- víla noun (mythical being)
Danish
3 entries- alf noun (mythical being)
- bøsse noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
- fe noun (mythical being)
Dutch
1 entries- fee noun (mythical being)
Erzya
1 entries- шенгава noun (mythical being)
Esperanto
3 entries- feino noun (mythical being)
- feo noun (mythical being)
- invertito noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
Estonian
1 entries- haldjas noun (mythical being)
Finnish
4 entries- haltija noun (mythical being)
- haltijatar noun (mythical being)
- hintti noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
- keiju noun (mythical being)
French
4 entries- folle noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
- fée noun (mythical being)
- féetaud noun (mythical being)
- tapette noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
Galician
3 entries- fada noun (mythical being)
- moura noun (mythical being)
- ouva noun (mythical being)
Georgian
1 entries- ფერია noun (mythical being)
German
4 entries- Alb noun (mythical being)
- Elb noun (mythical being)
- Elben noun (mythical being)
- Elfe noun (mythical being)
Greek
1 entries- νεράιδα noun (mythical being)
Hebrew
1 entries- פֵיָה noun (mythical being)
Hindi
2 entries- अप्सरा noun (mythical being)
- परी noun (mythical being)
Hungarian
1 entries- tündér noun (mythical being)
Indonesian
2 entries- maho noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
- peri noun (mythical being)
Irish
4 entries- bean sí noun (mythical being)
- daoine maithe noun (mythical being)
- sióg noun (mythical being)
- síogaí noun (mythical being)
Italian
4 entries- checca noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
- fata noun (mythical being)
- finocchio noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
- foletta noun (mythical being)
Japanese
3 entries- フェアリー noun (mythical being)
- 仙女 noun (mythical being)
- 妖精 noun (mythical being)
Kashmiri
1 entries- پری noun (mythical being)
Kazakh
1 entries- пері noun (mythical being)
Khmer
3 entries- ទេពកញ្ញា noun (mythical being)
- រម្ភា noun (mythical being)
- អប្សរ noun (mythical being)
Korean
3 entries- 선녀 noun (mythical being)
- 요정 noun (mythical being)
- 페어리 noun (mythical being)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- пери noun (mythical being)
- перизат noun (mythical being)
Lao
4 entries- ນາງຟ້າ noun (mythical being)
- ສຸຣາງ noun (mythical being)
- ອັບປະສອນ noun (mythical being)
- ເທບທິດາ noun (mythical being)
Latin
4 entries- alfa noun (mythical being)
- alfus noun (mythical being)
- dīva noun (mythical being)
- dīvus noun (mythical being)
Latvian
1 entries- feja noun (mythical being)
Lithuanian
1 entries- fėja noun (mythical being)
Macedonian
4 entries- ви́ла noun (mythical being)
- волше́бничка noun (mythical being)
- пе́дер noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
- педера́ст noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
Malay
2 entries- pari-pari noun (mythical being)
- pepari noun (mythical being)
Maltese
2 entries- feri noun (mythical being)
- saħħara noun (mythical being)
Manx
4 entries- ferrish noun (mythical being)
- mooinjer veggey noun (mythical being)
- shee noun (mythical being)
- sheeaghan noun (mythical being)
Marathi
1 entries- परी noun (mythical being)
Middle English
1 entries- elf noun (mythical being)
Middle High German
1 entries- alp noun (mythical being)
Middle Irish
1 entries- áes side noun (mythical being)
Mongolian
2 entries- дагина noun (mythical being)
- ᠳᠠᠭᠢᠨᠢ noun (mythical being)
Māori
4 entries- heketoro noun (mythical being)
- karitehe noun (mythical being)
- kōrakorako noun (mythical being)
- patupaiarehe noun (mythical being)
Norman
1 entries- fée noun (mythical being)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- perî noun (mythical being)
Norwegian
1 entries- fe noun (mythical being)
Old English
1 entries- ielf noun (mythical being)
Old Irish
4 entries- ben síde noun (mythical being)
- síd noun (mythical being)
- síde noun (mythical being)
- áes síde noun (mythical being)
Old Saxon
1 entries- alf noun (mythical being)
Pashto
1 entries- پري noun (mythical being)
Persian
2 entries- پری noun (mythical being)
- کونی noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
Polish
4 entries- ciota noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
- pedzio noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
- szwagier noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
- teściu noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
Portuguese
4 entries- bicha noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
- elfo noun (mythical being)
- fada noun (mythical being)
- marica noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
Romanian
2 entries- zână noun (mythical being)
- zână noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
Russian
4 entries- волше́бница noun (mythical being)
- го́мик noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
- мужело́жец noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
- педера́ст noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
Sanskrit
1 entries- विद्याधरी noun (mythical being)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- bean-shìdh noun (mythical being)
- sluagh sìdhe noun (mythical being)
- sìth noun (mythical being)
- sìthiche noun (mythical being)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- vilènjāk noun (mythical being)
- víla noun (mythical being)
- ви́ла noun (mythical being)
- вилѐња̄к noun (mythical being)
Slovak
2 entries- teploš noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
- víla noun (mythical being)
Slovene
1 entries- vila noun (mythical being)
Spanish
4 entries- fada noun (mythical being)
- hada noun (mythical being)
- marica noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
- mujercita noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
Swahili
1 entries- kichimbakazi noun (mythical being)
Swedish
3 entries- fe noun (mythical being)
- fjolla noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
- älva noun (mythical being)
Tagalog
2 entries- ada noun (mythical being)
- diwata noun (mythical being)
Tajik
1 entries- парӣ noun (mythical being)
Thai
2 entries- นางฟ้า noun (mythical being)
- เทพธิดา noun (mythical being)
Turkish
3 entries- irşi noun (mythical being)
- peri noun (mythical being)
- tüngür noun (mythical being)
Turkmen
1 entries- peri noun (mythical being)
Ukrainian
2 entries- фе́я noun (mythical being)
- чарівни́ця noun (mythical being)
Urdu
1 entries- پری noun (mythical being)
Uyghur
1 entries- پەرى noun (mythical being)
Uzbek
2 entries- pari noun (mythical being)
- sohira noun (mythical being)
Venetan
1 entries- fada noun (mythical being)
Vietnamese
4 entries- người đồng tính nam noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
- nàng tiên noun (mythical being)
- tiên nữ noun (mythical being)
- yêu tinh noun (mythical being)
Volapük
3 entries- fey noun (mythical being)
- hifey noun (mythical being)
- jifey noun (mythical being)
Welsh
1 entries- tylwyth teg noun (mythical being)
Yiddish
2 entries- פֿייגעלע noun ((derogatory slang) effeminate male homosexual)
- פֿעע noun (mythical being)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
The little girl was absorbed in reading a fairy tale.
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The author translated the fairy tale into our mother tongue.
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This fairy tale is easy enough for a seven-year-old child to read.
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