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Fancy   /fˈænsi/   Listen
Fancy

verb
(past & past part. fancied, pres. part. fancying)
1.
Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind.  Synonyms: envision, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize.  "I can see what will happen" , "I can see a risk in this strategy"
2.
Have a fancy or particular liking or desire for.  Synonyms: go for, take to.
adjective
1.
Not plain; decorative or ornamented.  "Fancy clothes"  Antonym: plain.
noun
(pl. fancies)
1.
Something many people believe that is false.  Synonyms: fantasy, illusion, phantasy.
2.
A kind of imagination that was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination.
3.
A predisposition to like something.  Synonyms: fondness, partiality.



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"Fancy" Quotes from Famous Books



... is about her. But how did you know that? You always seem to be able to read one's thoughts before one speaks. Do you know, sometimes I think that she has taken a fancy to me, do you see, and I wanted to ask you ...
— Dawn • H. Rider Haggard
... they turn to this plan, so as to divide some of us by words, to draw some by the bait of an alliance into open war with each other, and to ruin others by such flattery as different circumstances may render acceptable? And do we fancy when destruction first overtakes a distant fellow countryman that the danger will not come to each of us also, or that he who suffers before us will suffer in ...
— The History of the Peloponnesian War • Thucydides
... which was by no means low, had always been divided evenly between them, and payed, quarterly, to their landlord. Immediately upon the decision that Ivan was to leave this fashionable quarter of the city, a young ensign of the Second Grenadiers, one to whom both young men had taken a great fancy during the winter, offered to take Ivan's share of the apartment off his hands. As he entered before the 1st of June, he naturally insisted upon paying the two months' rent, which, however, Vladimir did not send Ivan until twenty-four hours after that quixotic youth ...
— The Genius • Margaret Horton Potter
... my fancy dress. Can I change in the back room, Joanna? Will you keep my clothes here till ...
— The Door Through Space • Marion Zimmer Bradley
... "I'm foot loose and fancy free. And I think you ought to have somebody with you to help watch that cook. He ...
— The Metal Monster • A. Merritt


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