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A faery is a fairy: a small magical being in stories, or, in older writing, the whole other world those beings belong to. The spelling is the point. Faery (and faerie) is the old, literary coat of the word. Poets and fantasy writers put it on when they want woods, mist, and a little danger — not a pink toy with sparkly wings. Everyday English fairy, and that is the word to use in class unless you are quoting a poem or a fantasy map. The sound is the same, or nearly: FAIR-ee. If an author Faery with a capital F, they often mean the land, a place, not one little creature.
仙子、精靈(舊式/文學拼法;日常寫 fairy)
組成An older spelling of fairy. Fairy comes from Old French faerie, which first meant the land of fairies, then the beings themselves.
同家族的字
- fairythe usual modern spelling of the same word
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。