Dictionary entry

Fantasy

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Fan″ta‐sy (?), n.; pl.Fantasies (#). [See Fancy.] 1. Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor.

Is not this something more than fantasy? Shak.

A thousand fantasies

Begin to throng into my memory. Milton.

2. Fantastic designs.

Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread. Hawthorne.