fantast

See also: Fantast

English

Noun

fantast (plural fantasts)

1. (now rare) One whose manners or ideas are fantastic and fanciful; a dreamer.
   • 1804, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, notes on Thomas Browne's Vulgar Errors:

     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.

   • 1987, Joan Didion, Miami, Granta, published 2005, page 190:

     I recall one particularly heady Outreach meeting, in 1985, at which one of the speakers was a fantast named Jack Wheeler, who liked to say that Izvestia had described him as an “ideological gangster” […] .

Translations

one with fantastic or fanciful ideas

• Finnish: fantasti
• Russian: фанта́ст (ru) m (fantást), фанта́стка (ru) f (fantástka)

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

fantast m or f (plural fantasten, diminutive fantastje n)

1. a fantasizer, dreamer

Related terms

• fantasie, fantastisch

Descendants

• Negerhollands: fantast

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Phantast.

Noun

fantast m (plural fantaști)

1. fantast

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	fantast	fantastul		fantaști	fantaștii
genitive-dative	fantast	fantastului		fantaști	fantaștilor
vocative	fantastule			fantaștilor

Swedish

Noun

fantast c

1. (often in compounds) an enthusiast, a buff

   en skoterfantast

   a snowmobile enthusiast

2. a fantast

Declension

Declension of fantast

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	fantast	fantasts
	definite	fantasten	fantastens
plural	indefinite	fantaster	fantasters
	definite	fantasterna	fantasternas

References

• fantast in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• fantast in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• fantast in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)