féerie

See also: feerie and Feerie

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French féerie. Doublet of fairy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛəɹi/, /ˈfeɪəɹi/

Noun

féerie (plural féeries)

1. A fantastical theatrical production or film featuring fairies.
   • 2003: Syd's féerie entourage and girlies in drifting crinoline went out of the window, of course, along with his animated scarecrows — Jeremy Harding, ‘Afternoonishness’, London Review of Books 25:1

Translations

Translations

• French: féerie (fr) f, féérie (fr) f
• German: Feerie (de) f
• Polish: feeria (pl) f
• Romanian: feerie (ro) f
• Russian: фее́рия (ru) f (fejérija)
• Swedish: feeri (sv) n

French

Alternative forms

• féérie (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

From fée +‎ -erie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe.e.ʁi/, (non-standard) /fe.ʁi/

Noun

féerie f (plural féeries)

1. what fairies do
2. any fictional universe involving magical creatures such as fairies, ogres and dragons
3. faerie, féerie

   C’était une vraie féerie.

   It was absolutely magical.

4. extravaganza
5. (figuratively) something impressive and/or enchanting

Derived terms

• ballet-féerie
• féerique
• opéra-féerie

 

Descendants

• → Bulgarian: фее́рия (feérija)
• → English: féerie
• → German: Feerie
• → Polish: feeria
• → Romanian: feerie
• → Russian: фее́рия (fejérija), феерія (fejerija) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
  • → Azerbaijani: feeriya
  • → Kazakh: феерия (feeriä)
  • → Kyrgyz: феерия (feyeriya)
  • → Turkmen: feýeriýa
  • → Uzbek: feyeriya
• → Swedish: feeri
• → Turkish: feeri

Further reading

• “féerie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• fériée