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Definition of Faery
1. Noun. A small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers.
Generic synonyms: Spiritual Being, Supernatural Being
Specialized synonyms: Brownie, Elf, Gremlin, Hob, Imp, Pixie, Pixy, Fairy Godmother, Dwarf, Gnome, Morgan Le Fay, Puck, Robin Goodfellow, Oberson, Titania, Tooth Fairy, Water Nymph, Water Spirit, Water Sprite
2. Noun. The enchanted realm of fairies.
Generic synonyms: Fictitious Place, Imaginary Place, Mythical Place
Definition of Faery
1. Noun. (obsolete spelling of fairy) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Faery
1. faerie [n -ERIES] - See also: faerie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Faery
Literary usage of Faery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Douglas Hyde, Charles Welsh, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"THE faery FOOL. If I 'm the faery fool, Dalua— Ay me, the faery fool! How do I
know what the rushes say, Sighing and shuddering all the day Over their ..."
2. Spenser by Richard William Church (1883)
"THE faery QUEEN THE FIRST PART. [1580—1590.] THE faery Queen is heard of very
early in Spenser's literary course. We know that in the beginning of 1580, ..."
3. Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English by Isaac Disraeli (1864)
"While composing the " faery Queen," he liad that concurrent poem of the regal
Arthur, ... The first book of the " faery Queen," when the difficulties of ..."
4. The Celtic Twilight by William Butler Yeats (1902)
"OF faery the People THOSE that see the people of faery most often, and so have
the most of their wisdom, are often very poor, but often, too, ..."
5. The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829)
"Weaving gay dreams of sunny-tinctured hue We glance before his view: O'er his
hush'd sou) our soothing witcheries shed, And twine our faery garlands round ..."
6. Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats by John Keats (1848)
"A faery TALE. UNFINISHED. IN midmost Ind, beside Hydaspes cool, There stood, or
hover'd, tremulous in the air, A faery city, 'neath the potent rule Of ..."
7. English Lands, Letters and Kings by Donald Grant Mitchell (1889)
"The faery Queen. And it is in this easy way he plants the men and women, the hags
and demons, the wizards and dragons that figure in the phantasmagoria of ..."
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