fantasy football/baseball/basketball

fan·​ta·​syˈfan-tə-sē -zē

noun

the power or process of creating especially unrealistic or improbable mental images in response to psychological needalso: a mental image or a series of mental images (such as a daydream) so created sexual fantasies

an object of fantasy

a creation of the imaginative faculty whether expressed or merely conceived: such as

a chimerical or fantastic notion

His plans are pure fantasy.

imaginative fiction featuring especially strange settings and grotesque characters called alsofantasy fiction

spent the summer reading fantasy

fantasia sense 1

the organ fantasy of Johannes Brahms

a fanciful design or invention

a fantasy of delicate tracery

fancyespecially: the free play of creative imagination

caprice

served to fulfill the king's fantasies

often attributive a coin usually not intended for circulation as currency and often issued by a dubious authority (such as a government-in-exile)

obsolete hallucination

adjective

of, relating to, or being a game in which participants create and manage imaginary teams consisting of players from a particular sport and scoring is based on the statistical performances of the actual players playing fantasy sports The draft is the best part of being part of a fantasy league. … You get to choose the players you like and want to watch and help you win.—Lawrence Doto Paula [Knoy] knows how to sacrifice for her fantasy team, even passing up a player like Eli Manning from her favorite New York Giants for a higher scoring quarterback.—Ruby Thomas

fantasy football/baseball/basketball

verb

transitive + intransitive

fantasize Anyone who has bought a Lotto ticket has probably fantasied about all the amazing places they will go as soon as their numbers come tumbling out of the barrel.—Conor Pope While growing up, most Disney fans have fantasied about being their favorite princess, prince or Disney character …—Carolina Brigagao

fantasies her ideal future

noun

the power or process of creating especially unrealistic or improbable mental images in response to psychological needalso: a mental image or a series of mental images (such as a daydream) so created sexual fantasies

an object of fantasy

a creation of the imaginative faculty whether expressed or merely conceived: such as

a chimerical or fantastic notion

His plans are pure fantasy.

imaginative fiction featuring especially strange settings and grotesque characters called alsofantasy fiction

spent the summer reading fantasy

fantasia sense 1

the organ fantasy of Johannes Brahms

a fanciful design or invention

a fantasy of delicate tracery

fancyespecially: the free play of creative imagination

caprice

served to fulfill the king's fantasies

often attributive a coin usually not intended for circulation as currency and often issued by a dubious authority (such as a government-in-exile)

obsolete hallucination

adjective

of, relating to, or being a game in which participants create and manage imaginary teams consisting of players from a particular sport and scoring is based on the statistical performances of the actual players playing fantasy sports The draft is the best part of being part of a fantasy league. … You get to choose the players you like and want to watch and help you win.—Lawrence Doto Paula [Knoy] knows how to sacrifice for her fantasy team, even passing up a player like Eli Manning from her favorite New York Giants for a higher scoring quarterback.—Ruby Thomas

fantasy football/baseball/basketball

verb

transitive + intransitive

fantasize Anyone who has bought a Lotto ticket has probably fantasied about all the amazing places they will go as soon as their numbers come tumbling out of the barrel.—Conor Pope While growing up, most Disney fans have fantasied about being their favorite princess, prince or Disney character …—Carolina Brigagao

fantasies her ideal future

Noun Middle English fantasie, fantsy, fansey "the imagination as a faculty, mental image produced by this faculty, deluded notion, figment of the imagination, preference directed by caprice rather than reason, liking," borrowed from Anglo-French fantasie "imagination as a faculty, figment of the imagination, dizziness," borrowed from Late Latin phantasia "imagination as a faculty, mental image of something perceived physically, image evoked by a poet or orator, a thing imagined by someone sleeping or ill, delusion," going back to Latin, "imagined situation or experience," borrowed from Greek phantasía "appearance, presentation to consciousness (whether immediate or in memory), image, imagination as a faculty, imagery," noun derivative corresponding to phantázein "to make visible, present to the eye or mind, (middle voice) place before one's mind, picture to oneself, imagine," causative verb from phantós "visible," verbal adjective of phaínō, phaínein (active voice) "to bring to light, cause to appear," and phaínomai, phaínesthai (middle voice) "to become visible, come to light, appear," going back to *phan-i̯e/o-, thematized from Indo-European *bh-né-h2-/bh-n̥-h2- (whence also Armenian banam "(I) open, reveal"), nasal present from *bheh2- "shine, give light, appear," whence Sanskrit bhā́ti "(it) shines, beams," Avestan fra-uuāiti "(it) beams forth"; the verb is allied to nominal derivatives in -n-, as Germanic *bōnjan- (whence Old English bōn "ornament," gebōned "ornamented," Middle Dutch boenen "to scrub, polish"), Old Irish bán "white, fair, bright," Tocharian B peñiyo "splendor," Sanskrit bhānú- "light, beam, brilliance, appearance," Avestan bānu- "beam of light" Note: Compare fancy >entry 2, in Middle English a rare variant of fantasie; the two split from each other in early Modern English, so that fancy >entry 2 and fantasy now differ in meaning and construction. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a not infrequent sense, usually with the spelling phantasy, was "the formation of images or representations in direct perception or in memory," more or less following the Greek meaning. — Regarding the relation of *bheh2- "shine, give light, appear" to the homonymous base *bheh2- "speak, say," see the note at ban >entry 1. Adjective from attributive use of fantasy >entry 1 Verb Middle English fantasien, fantesien, fancyen "to plan, devise, create, form (an idea), imagine (something false), desire" — more at fancy >entry 1 Note: The word was originally a variant of fancy >entry 1, which, together with the more recent derivative fantasize, has in large part supplanted it.

The first known use of fantasy was in the 14th century

fanny packnoun

a pack that straps to the waist and is used for carrying personal items

fanny packnoun

a pack that straps to the waist and is used for carrying personal items

fantasynoun

imagination sense 3, fancy

something imagined: as

illusion sense 2

fantasia

a work of literature set in an unreal world often with superhuman characters and monsters