Synonyms for fairy tale


Grammar : Noun


Définition of fairy tale

Origin :
  • "oral narrative centered on magical tests, quests, and transformations," 1749, translating French Conte de feés of Madame d'Aulnois (1698, translated into English 1699). As an adjective (also fairytale), attested by 1963.
  • noun children's imaginative story with magical characters
Example sentences :
  • Let us change the subject; let us have a romance or a fable or a fairy tale.
  • Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
  • Decidedly, I had walked into a fairy tale, or else I was dreaming!
  • Extract from : « The Green Satin Gown » by Laura E. Richards
  • Diabolus, like the bad genius in the fairy tale, survived for fresh mischief.
  • Extract from : « Bunyan » by James Anthony Froude
  • A dream had succeeded the nightmare, a fairy tale of a dream.
  • Extract from : « The Innocent Adventuress » by Mary Hastings Bradley
  • But I've been about to-day, and I asked questions, and—I'm going to tell you a fairy tale.
  • Extract from : « Cy Whittaker's Place » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • Yes, I've lived in a fairy tale, but I've never loved a princess.
  • Extract from : « The Vagrant Duke » by George Gibbs
  • The story of this double reign is the romance, the fairy tale of history.
  • Extract from : « A Short History of Spain » by Mary Platt Parmele
  • He could not believe his own motives if he did not make them first a part of some fairy tale.
  • Extract from : « Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard » by Joseph Conrad
  • This is not a fairy tale; every word of it is scientifically true.
  • Extract from : « Common Science » by Carleton W. Washburne
  • In the fairy tale I believe the girl that marries the prince is—what is it?
  • Extract from : « The Arrow of Gold » by Joseph Conrad

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