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Webster 1913 Edition


Fantast

Fan′tast

,
Noun.
One whose manners or ideas are fantastic.
[R.]
Coleridge.

Definition 2024


Fantast

Fantast

See also: fantast

German

Alternative forms

  • Phantast (obsolete)

Noun

Fantast m (genitive Fantasten, plural Fantasten)

  1. fantasist, dreamer

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Derived terms

fantast

fantast

See also: Fantast

English

Noun

fantast (plural fantasts)

  1. (obsolete) One whose manners or ideas are fantastic and fanciful.
    • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
      He is indeed all this; and what he has more than all this peculiar to himself, I seem to convey to my own mind in some measure by saying, — that he is a quiet and sublime enthusiast with a strong tinge of the fantast, — the humourist constantly mingling with, and flashing across, the philosopher, as the darting colours in shot silk play upon the main dye.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

fantast m, f (plural fantasten, diminutive fastastje n)

  1. a fantasizer, dreamer

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