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English
Noun
fantast (plural fantasts)
- (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
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
fantast m or f (plural fantasten, diminutive fantastje n)
- a fantasizer, dreamer
Descendants
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Phantast.
Noun
fantast m (plural fantaști)
- fantast
Declension
Swedish
Noun
fantast c
- (often in compounds) an enthusiast, a buff
en skoterfantast- a snowmobile enthusiast
- a fantast
Declension
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