"faerie" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: faeries [plural]
Etymology: A deliberately archaic spelling of fairy (attested since the 1300s in spellings like fairye, fayre), based on Old French faerie, used in 1590 by Edmund Spenser in the Faerie Queene. Etymology templates: {{m|en|fairy}} fairy, {{uder|en|fro|faerie}} Old French faerie Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} faerie (countable and uncountable, plural faeries)
  1. Archaic spelling of fairy. Tags: alt-of, archaic, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: fairy
    Sense id: en-faerie-en-noun-HUgAJgPw
  2. Realm of the fays, fairyland. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Mythological creatures, Mythology
    Sense id: en-faerie-en-noun-mbSSJYVq Disambiguation of Mythological creatures: 25 75 Disambiguation of Mythology: 30 70 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 76 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 25 75 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 32 68
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: færie [archaic, nonstandard], faërie Derived forms: faeriecore, faeriedom, faerie godmother, faeriekind

Noun [Old French]

Etymology: fae + -erie Etymology templates: {{suf|fro|fae|-erie}} fae + -erie Head templates: {{head|fro|noun|g=f}} faerie f
  1. the sphere or realm of enchantment, magic or dream associated with the fae (fays) Tags: feminine Synonyms: faierie Derived forms: French: féerie, féérie→ Bulgarian: фее́рия→ English: féerie→ German: Feerie→ Polish: feeria→ Romanian: feerie→ Russian: феерия (fejerija), феерія→ Azerbaijani: feeriya→ Kazakh: феерия→ Kyrgyz: феерия→ Turkmen: feýeriýa→ Uzbek: feyeriya→ Swedish: feeri→ Turkish: feeri (feyeriya), → Middle English: faierieEnglish: fairy, fairie, faeryScots: fairy, faery
    Sense id: en-faerie-fro-noun-5iU3bD3D Categories (other): Old French entries with incorrect language header, Old French terms suffixed with -erie

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