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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