FANTASY


Meaning of FANTASY in English

noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ mere , pure , sheer , total

Most of what they told us was pure ~.

▪ ultimate

the ultimate human ~: being able to fly

▪ utopian

▪ wild

She dismissed the idea as a wild ~.

▪ escapist

▪ paranoid

▪ violent

▪ revenge

She was seething with anger and filled with revenge fantasies.

▪ personal , private , secret

▪ childhood , childish

▪ adolescent

▪ erotic , romantic , sexual

▪ male

VERB + FANTASY

▪ enjoy , entertain , have , indulge in

She didn't entertain silly fantasies about love at first sight.

They indulge in teenage fantasies about being the greatest rock band in the world

▪ build , create , weave

She had woven a whole ~ about living near the coast.

▪ feed , feed off , fuel

▪ act out

Children can act out their fantasies in a secure environment.

▪ fulfil/fulfill , indulge , live , live out , play out , satisfy

My childhood fantasies were finally fulfilled.

He was willing to indulge her wildest fantasies.

He was able to play out his ~ of rock stardom.

FANTASY + NOUN

▪ life

▪ land , realm , world

You're living in a ~ world.

▪ figure

children that project their own identities onto ~ figures

▪ adventure , book , film , game , genre , movie , novel , story , writer

▪ baseball , basketball , football , sports ( esp. AmE )

▪ league , team

PREPOSITION

▪ ~ about

She had a ~ about going to live on a South Pacific island.

▪ ~ of

adolescent fantasies of power, glory and recognition

PHRASES

▪ the realm of ~ ( esp. AmE ), the realms of ~ ( BrE )

The idea belonged in the realms of ~.

▪ a world of ~

She felt she had entered a world of ~.

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .