Synonyms for fairy story
| Grammar : Noun |
Top 10 synonyms for fairy story Other synonyms for the word fairy story
- allegory
- apologue
- artifact
- bestiary
- bunk
- concoction
- creation
- crock
- delusion
- fabrication
- fairy story
- fairy tale
- fake
- fallacy
- false belief
- falsehood
- fancy
- fib
- figment
- fish story
- folk ballad
- folk tale
- folklore
- ghost story
- hogwash
- invention
- jazz
- jive
- lie
- line
- Marchen
- myth
- mythos
- notion
- old chestnut
- old saw
- one for the birds
- opus
- romance
- saga
- smoke
- song and dance
- superstition
- tale
- tall story
- tall tale
- tradition
- untruth
- white lie
- whopper
- work
- yarn
Définition of fairy story
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.
- As in myth : noun fictitious story, often ancient
- As in : noun superstition
- As in fairy tale : noun children's imaginative story with magical characters
- As in fable : noun fantasy, story
- As in fabrication : noun lie
- What I write will sound like some fairy story, I fear, to my people at home.
- Extract from : « The Soul of a People » by H. Fielding
- "It is a fairy story you have given us," said an American officer.
- Extract from : « Young Glory and the Spanish Cruiser » by Walter Fenton Mott
- It was like a fairy story, and, what was best of all, it continued.
- Extract from : « Sara Crewe » by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- There is something romantic, like a fairy story, in a treasure cave.
- Extract from : « Chatterbox, 1906 » by Various
- The play of King Lear is based upon a fable and a fairy story.
- Extract from : « William Shakespeare » by John Masefield
- While the children are putting on their French cambrics, I will tell you a Fairy story.
- Extract from : « Nine Little Goslings » by Susan Coolidge
- I want to be thrust into the middle of some fairy story before I die.
- Extract from : « The Pagan Madonna » by Harold MacGrath
- Was she telling them a fairy story, or teaching them a new game of whist?
- Extract from : « The Chautauqua Girls At Home » by Pansy, AKA Isabella M. Alden
- Elizabeth had never read a fairy story or any vivid description.
- Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old Boston » by Amanda Millie Douglas
- I've woven quite a fairy story about those wonderful eyes of hers.
- Extract from : « High Noon » by Anonymous
Antonyms for fairy story
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